2026. Volume 6. Issue 2

Editor-in-Chief’s Column

Modern art II (the mid-20th century). Expansion and resistance

• A. I. Demchenko

Theory and History of Art

Dance genres in the first printed collections of instrumental music

• O. V. Zubova

“A powerful, unstoppable stream” of war in the fate of academician of painting I. T. Bogdesko

• O. Y. Koshkina

Ecological art within the structure of ecological culture

• A. L. Mileshko

The “Sino-Soviet Culture” magazine as a platform for Sino-Soviet artistic exchange: exhibitions and graphic arts of the 1930s-1940s

• Sijia Liu

Musical Arts

Commonalities in the ballets “Daphnis and Chloe” by Maurice Ravel and “Romeo and Juliet” by Sergei Prokofiev

• R. N. Kachalov

One-movement sonata in the oeuvre of N. Kapustin: compositional and dramaturgical aspects

• Kaiting Mo

The voice as an instrument of satire in A. V. Mosolov’s vocal cycle “Three Children’s Scenes” (1926)

• A. G. Frolova

Chopin’s 24 Preludes in the interpretations of Fou Ts’ong and European pianists: a comparative analysis

• Miaojin Hu
• Y. E. Serov

Art of dancing

Regional features of folk dance of the Russian North

• A. A. Gusenkova

Fine and Applied Arts

The author’s doll in the context of modern art: criteria for differentiating an art object and a toy

• I. N. Nikitina

The face as a cinematic construction: Ingmar Bergman’s visual strategies

• I. D. Solovyov

The space of the Chinese landscape in the works of R. V. Khalilov

• Meng Yin

Material and style in white porcelain sculpture: Dehua blanc de Chine and the Leningrad biscuit made by the Leningrad Porcelain Factory

• Shengyu Chen

The image of nomadic culture in contemporary Siberian Art: artistic interpretation of tradition in the work of Zorikto Dorzhiev

• D. E. Gerasimenko

John Singer Sargent’s portrait painting and the problem of cultural legitimation of the American elite

• Jia Zeng

Film and TV Arts

Theoretical foundations for the study of theatricality in instrumental theater and cinema

• O. V. Romanyuk

The communal apartment as an artistic model of a social experiment in V. V. Bortko’s film “Heart of a Dog”

• M. V. Shumov

Theory and History of Culture

Lezginka as a form of intangible cultural heritage: structural and socio-cultural analysis

• U. S. Suriev

Philosophy of Art and Culture

Mirror of the times: youth culture as reflected in the media

• E. S. Zaozerskaya

Investigating ontological insecurity and personality defensive strategies in M. Gorky’s final novel

• A. V. Lesevitsky

Aesthetics

Cultivation of sacred values in 19th-century painting: the image of harvest in Jean-François Millet’s “The Gleaners”

• N. Y. Dmitrieva

Interdisciplinary Art Studies

Specifics of Don Juan’s imagery representation in European and Eastern literary, cinematic, and musical-theatrical works. Part 1

• Yaru Zhang
• N. Y. Kireyeva

Specifics of Don Juan’s imagery representation in European and Eastern literary, cinematic, and musical-theatrical works. Part 2

• Yaru Zhang
• N. Y. Kireyeva

The image of Chinese painting in the pages of “Yunyy Khudozhnik” magazine: evolution of representations in the late Soviet period (1983-1991)

• T. P. Khristolyubova

Library science

Local history activities of public libraries as a factor in shaping the mythological image of a metropolis: the case of Saint Petersburg

• O. O. Panchenko

Architecture and Design

Architecture of private museums in Russia in the second half of the 19th century: unique and typical features

• Y. N. Bezmaterova

Art Education

Development of pedagogical thought for domra players in the late 19th – first half of the 20th century

• E. S. Lopatova
• S. V. Lopatov