Abstract: In the life of society, the arts play an indispensible role in the constant reproduction of spiritual culture. The unique characteristics of this type of spiritual-practical activity consist of the fact that here the artist and the viewer (reader, listener) not only acquire knowledge about the world but also assimilate emotional-value attitudes toward the environment and toward themselves and come to be involved in human, dialogue-oriented relations with the world—that is, they discover reality for themselves, the world of people, filled with personal meanings. The individual discovers the humanness of the world thanks to the fact that in artistic endeavor (creation, perception, interpretation of works of art) he becomes enriched by socially and historically developed experience, living through and experiencing the universally human experience of the understanding of truth, goodness, and beauty as an experience of his own life. Thus, the artist and the viewer are exposed to common human values, and freely create themselves on the bass of the laws of beauty. In this way, the arts develop the individual's universal human ability to be involved in the creative transformation of the world in any endeavor.
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
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