Simbolių, meno formų bei motyvų difuzija ir akultūracija (R. Wittkowerio, J. Baltrušaičio, H. Tanaka menotyriniuose tekstuose)
Diffusion and acculturation of symbols, art forms and motifs (in art criticism of R. Wittkower, J. Baltrušaitis and H. Tanaka)

Summary/Abstract: In the article author discloses how notions of diffusion and acculturation circulate in the 20th century art criticism. The problem of diffusion in theory of culture and in art criticism recovers interdisciplinary links of these sciences. Art is important form of cultural expression, and as other cultural phenomena is dependent on the same rules of cultural change in which the diffusion of cultural elements, motifs, forms, symbols, plays an important role. There are a lot of works in 20th century art theory devoted to the problem of influence of cultural elements of different non-European countries to West Europe art. Here is shortly presented some works concerning the issue by R.Wittkower, J.Baltrušaitis and H.Tanaka. Actualization of the problem of cultural diffusion recovers the problem of cultural interchanges between East and West and also the fact that there is a lot of space to work in. Also studies of the diffusion of cultural elements arise the problem why certain cultural elements at certain time are borrowed. Here we are facing functionalism and the huge importance of contextual method.

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