“Craft” as a factor of artistic creativity: interpretive searches of metamodernism

Abstract

The article focuses on the problem of “craft”, which occupies a special place in the theoretical space of the phenomenon of artistic creativity since the time of Plato. Throughout the various stages of historical and cultural development, the attitude towards “craft” changed noticeably, however, to one degree or another, the problem of creativity always remained in the field. The experience of the theoretical analysis of the “craft” problem in the aesthetic and art studies of R. J. Collingwood and J. Deleuze is reconstructed. Articulated in such historical and cultural stages as the Middle Ages – consideration of the craft in the context of the “canon” with an emphasis on “techniques – skills”, the Renaissance, when the level of the craft is correlated with the mastery of “mathematics – geometry” and the research processes of the 16th century, where the craft is finally separated from art. The role of mannerism in the preservation of “craft” in the content of aesthetic-artistic issues is emphasized, as well as the presence of the “craft” segment in explorations of both artistic and scientific and technical creativity. It is shown that entering on the border of XX-XXI centuries. into the European cultural space of metamodernism defined new interpretive approaches to a number of stable concepts that guided the humanism of the past, in particular, to the concept of “craft”. A new approach to its understanding contributed to the actualization of the material proposed in the article.