Cult of the mask. Historical context

Mask is a unique phenomenon of world culture, the phenomenon of which in different historical eras and in modern times was due to general cultural trends, including mediation of society, when the image of personality becomes an integral part of the communication process. The objects of the study are the cult of the mask and its social metamorphoses. The genesis and evolution of the mask are analyzed, its role, originality and functions are substantiated in primitive society and in antiquity, in the Middle Ages and in the Enlightenment, at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries. And in the new millennium. It is shown that the main ability of the mask is to be a “medium”, that is, an intermediary between the real and mythological worlds, between man and society.
For representatives of humanitarian science - culturalists, historians, art historians, philologists, as well as all those who are interested in the theory and history of culture and art (painting, theater and film, choreography, pops)
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