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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[ Myth and the artistic consciousness of the 20th century]
Ed. by N.A. Khrenov
Moscow: Kanon+ ROOI "Reabilitatsiia", 2011 687 p Serie: Iskusstvo v Istoricheskoi Dinamike Kul`tury Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm. Printing 800 ISBN: 9785883732675 Language: Russian
This is the next volume in the series Arts in Historical Perspective of Culture. The contributors discuss the issue of activation of mythological consciousness in transitional periods of history. One of the issues touched upon is the myth of the Modern and the Modern as myth. Contents: Revival of myth in the newest time as a subject of cultural study; Actualization of the archaic in an epoch of the dying away modern; Myth as an opposition to the modern in artistic culture; Myth in its historical and artistic angles; Myth and mass culture; From modern to postmodern. (0.775 kg.)