Аннотация
The article analyses the priority problems of the development of contemporary art, as well as the evolution of aesthetic ideas, views in the situation of comprehensive and profound transformation of artistic relations, and interests. Changes in artistic practice, aesthetic attitudes, and philosophical assessments in the field of art are defined by the authors of the article as a problem of social contexts, multifactorial demands in the field of artistic creativity. The authors focus not only on stylistic, axiological, normative, public, contractual attitudes in the field of artistic practice and relations but primarily on latent, at the same time, prevailing artistic, aesthetic approaches, expressed in intentions, expectations, emotions, needs, forms of communication, self-realization that go beyond cognitive commensurability, aesthetic objectivity, taste comprehensibility, moral accessibility. The publication discusses some techniques and features of “theorizing” in the field of analysis of art problems in a broad sense and in the analysis of its phenomena. The authors highlight the functions of art theory, discover the “autonomy” of art theory, and point out its differences from everyday assessments, practical requests, aesthetic attitudes, and “scientific norms”.