Politicization of the field of art: Historical versions, theoretical approaches, aesthetic specificity

The collective monograph includes articles written on the basis of reports, which were presented at two conferences in the Urals Federal University. First President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin (Yekaterinburg): Transformations of the left idea in the artistic culture of the USSR and France (May 2014) and Politicization of the field of art: Soviet artists in search of identity (June 2015) The conferences were organized by the project executing projects in the framework of international cooperation Transformation of the left idea in the literary fields of the USSR and France in the period of the mid-1920s - mid 1950s (Grant RGNF No. 13-23-08002, managers - Professor TA Kruglov, Ekaterinburg, and Professor J. Sapiro, Paris) The authors of the articles entering the monograph - Russian and French researchers, representatives of various humanitarian disciplines: philosophy, aesthetics, cultural history, cultural sociology, history of art, - united around the relevant and eternally discussion theme: attitude of art and politics. The interest of interest was the history of the left idea in the twentieth century., Presented in the experience of art and reflection of Soviet artists and French intellectuals