Audience of art in social dimensions

The monograph presents the results of a study of the trends and patterns of cultural behavior performed based on sociological surveys of the audience of art, as well as the urban population of Russia conducted by the State Institute of Art of Arts from the beginning of the 1980s to the present. The social portrait of the public of art, the picture of the country"s artistic life and the relations of the population to art, recreated in previous years in the process of numerous sociological research, the author supplements the cultural analysis of behavioral laws and cultural activity of the audience of art. The focus of attention is not only the philosophical issues of cultural consumption and the audience of art as a socio-cultural phenomenon, but mainly those essential features that characterize the real audience of various types of art as a participant in artistic life and as the most important counterparty in the art market, whose consumer behavior is largely in many respects Determines the conditions of the activities of organizations -manufacturers of cultural goods