Rozin, V. M. Background and Formation of Art in Archaic Culture and Culture of Old Kingdoms

Abstract: the article mentions facts from the history of the ancient art (stages of formation of cave art, peculiarities of the Ancient Egyptian canon in art and etc.) that require scientific research. The author of the article offers explanation of these facts from the point of view of cultural studies and semiotics. The author shows that formation of art (particularly, quasi art of the first cultures when the esthetical point of view hadn’t been formed yet) is a communication and sacral semiosis from one hand and a result of non-utilitarian policy in art that encouraged the outcome of an expert in quasi art and an artist himself.

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