=== SYMBOLISM LIES BEYOND THE AESTHETIC CATEGORIES === __ ________________________________________________________ One of Pushkin,s great poems begins with the words : The earth is motionless: heaven,s dome Is held by Theee, Creater, so that It will not fall on land and water And crush us Every first grader knows that the earth is not motionless but resolves . Thus thes stanzas have no serious meanings for a civilized person. Why, then, do poets resort to obviously untrue and incorrect idesas ? Marx points out that the most important problem in art is to explain why the Greek epochs and the Shakespearean tragedies retain the significance of a standard and unattainable model to this day , despite the fact that the circumstances from which their ideas and concepts developed have long since disappeared . Greek art was able to evolve only from Greek mythology , but it continues to stir and excite us , even though Greek mythology was lost all real meanings for us , apart from a historical one . the best proof that in art this theory operates essentially with an extra aesthetic moment is provided by the fate that befell RUSSIAN SYMBOLISM, the theoretical premise of which fully coincide with the theory under investation. VIACHESLAV IVANOV crystallized the conclusions by the RUSSIAN SYMBOLISTS in the formula: SYMBOLISM LIES BEYOND THE AESTHETIC CATEGORIES _______________ BY; LEV VYGOTSKY (1896____1934 ) SOVIET MARXIST PSYCHOLOGIST AND ART CRITIC BOOK= PSYCHOLOGY OF ART ( 1925 ) , CHAPTER : 2-- ART AS PERCEPTION MUST BACKTO ORIGINAL SOURCE ; FREE AVAIL ABLE ON; marxists. org_______________26---07---2014-----------RWP SYMBOLISM LIES BEYOND THE AESTHETIC CATEGORIES
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