A paradigm of art in aesthetics and artistic practice of Vira Vovk (based on personal correspondence)

Abstract

У статті проаналізовано естетичні погляди Віри Вовк на мистецтво крізь призму епістолярної спадщини. За допомогою біографічного методу виокремлено випадки особистих листовних діалогів письменниці з іншими майстрами художнього слова. Проаналізовано погляди Віри Вовк на проблеми розвитку мистецтва. Йдеться, у першу чергу, про полеміку та літературно-мистецькі теми, переклади з інших літератур тощо. Охарактеризовано професійні інтереси письменниці, її естетичні позиції, відстоювання власних принципів. Доводиться, що всі міркування Віри Вовк про соціальні проблеми, культуру, історію, філософію слугували фундаментом, опертям для рефлексій про мистецтво, про осмислення своєї ролі й місця в ньому. The article analyzes the aesthetic views of Vira Vovk on art through the prism of the epistolary heritage. With the help of biographical method, singled out cases of personal epistolary dialogs of the writer with other masters of artistic words. The views of Vira Vovk on the development of art are analyzed. This is, first of all, about polemics and literary and artistic themes, translations from other literatures, and others like that. Described the professional interests of the writer, her aesthetic position, defending her own principles. It is proved that all the arguments of Vira Vovk about social problems, culture, history, philosophy served as the foundation, for the support for reflections on art, for understanding their role and place in it. Literature studies of the last decades are marked by the search for new approaches to comprehending the spiritual heritage of mankind in general and of individual artists in particular-approaches that are not burdened with bias and ideology. One-sided analysis, judgments concerning the problems of art, dogmatism of the criteria and bias of the assessments are overcome. This is extremely helpful in getting acquainted with the private correspondence of the artistic word masters, which are an important part of the literary heritage of the writer, the most important source for the reception of the artist's artistic world. The latter constitute scientific interest not only as a material for studying a biography but also as an original factor that reflects the entire multiplicity of the spiritual life of the writer, the individual peculiarities of his thinking, the style of the creative personality, those or other artistic, cultural and social tendencies to which the artist is involved. In artistic practice, Vira Vovk develops the traditions of her predecessors, while introducing in writing the magnitude of global historical thinking, the energy of philosophical thought, and the high culture of verbal imagery. In her work, European culture and Ukrainian national tradition, knowledge of the achievements and constants of world literature and art are fruitfully and prominently combined. The feeling of this foundation is extremely important for the present Ukrainian artistic search, for the development of the latest wave of our culture. The literary heritage of Vira Vovk, despite the presence of a respectable number of studies of various backgrounds, requires an unclassified historical and literary reception, an objective definition of the essence of the specifics of their aesthetic and ideological beliefs. Taking into account the thesis that today's science corrects yesterday and tomorrow's-today, we consider it necessary to clarify, to concretize the views of Vira Vovk on the problems of art on the material of her own private correspondence.