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Myth-creation as a composition of the artist’s biography

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article. On the basis of analysis and generalization of works in the field of philosophy, sociology, art and cultural studies to clarify the essence of the concept of "myth-creation", to highlight the specifics of the biographical myth, to reveal the content of myth-creation in the measurement of the artist's biography. The methodology of the research is to apply analytical, cultural-contextual, comparative, system-structural, historical, axiological methods for revealing myth-creation as a structural component of the person's chronicle. Scientific novelty. The article specifies the meaning of myth-creativity from the standpoint of a biographical approach, arguing that the phenomenon mentioned above is part of the chronicle of a creative person. Conclusions. The myth in various historical periods appeared to be an irrational expressing of the most persistent ideas in which humanity was transmitted in the form of advancement in the material and spiritual spheres. Since the twentieth century, this phenomenon was rationalized, thereby becoming a means of not only intuitive comprehension but also a logical understanding of civilization processes. One of the forms of existence and distribution of myth is myth-creation. Basing on the resistant psychological, ideological and cultural dominance of a certain time, for it is typically to build a model for both the whole society and the individual which functioning in it. Since the epoch of romanticism, it actively integrates into the chronicle of a creative person and becoming its structural component. Biographical myth is a complex of reproduction of the way of master’s life from the position of subjective and social artistic being, revealing the significance of his figure in the existence of historical and social phenomena of the country, coverage in his activities the communication of conscious and subconscious codes of civilization. The myth-creating as a part of the chronicle of the artist is a philosophical and poetic understanding of his being through the prism of ideological orientations of a particular age, political and cultural situation, leading ideals and utopias. It is based on real episodes of life that have received multiple explications, scientifically reflected by biographers and admirers of subsequent epochs.

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