The Pipes as an Aspect of Household Art and Culture, During the XVIIIth - XIXth Centuries
The Pipes as an Aspect of Household Art and Culture, During the XVIIIth - XIXth Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to the culturological analysis of the pipes as to the things with the utilitarian and art appointment. Here are allocated the following basic directions of the research: historical, social and psychological, philosophical, esthetic, and the direction of the art criticism. The culturological interpretation of the attribute of the small plasticity in the context of the cross-disciplinary disciplines of the humanitarian knowledge allows the comprehending of the history and the evolution of a pipe, its contents and the specific functions in society, interaction with other art forms. The attention is focused on the cultural aspects of “reading” of the pipes in the space of the art picture of the world. In this regard, there are considered the style, the specifics of the language of the object of art that is represented in signs and symbols. It is summarized that the approaches and the methods of the cultural science in the study of the pipes as the works of the art, enrich and expand the common cultural meanings which art brings in general.

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