• Original research article
  • July 14, 2023
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ANCIENT WORLD: The depth of time. Discoveries and revelations

Abstract

The aim of the paper, despite its concise form of presentation, is to provide a systematic review of the leading trends in world art culture at the stage of the Ancient World. The fundamental positions of the proposed consideration are formulated as follows: the creation of the world, the creation of man, and the creation of art in general. Such significant phenomena as a large number of rock carvings and initial attempts at sculptural plastic arts serve as the research material, moreover, the movement from animalistic images to man’s images turns out to be a crucial issue. In ancient architecture, the defining moment is the promotion of geometrism as a technical and aesthetic category. In literature, the most important evolutionary processes were associated with a gradual transition from glorifying the gods to recreating images of people. In the course of the establishment of human society, the fundamental action was the formation of early civilizations, which found its expression in the appropriate level of artistic thinking, in the assertion of a developed emotional sphere, in a qualitatively different character of man’s attitude to nature.

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Author information

Aleksandr Ivanovich Demchenko

Dr

International Center of Complex Artistic Research; Saratov State Conservatory, Saratov

About this article

The translation of the article is published at the author's initiative. First published: Демченко А. И. Древний мир (Глубь времён). Открытия и откровения // ИКОНИ / ICONI. 2020. № 1. С. 6-23. DOI: 10.33779/2658-4824.2020.1.006-023.

Publication history

  • Received: May 11, 2023.
  • Published: July 14, 2023.

Keywords

  • мировая художественная культура
  • Древний мир
  • первобытное состояние
  • ранние цивилизации
  • world art culture
  • Ancient World
  • primitive state
  • early civilizations

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