Dialogue and Universalism

Volume 7, Issue 3/4, 1997

Aethetics in Practice

The Russian Simulacrum
An Aesthetic Theory and Practice

This comparative analysis of multiple variants of the aesthetics of simulacrum as equal and autonomous participants in the postmodern polylogue presents a principle of creation of a 'third reality', which unites foreign and Russian elements. Making an artifact out of an artifact leads to a theory of artistic relativism. This type of simulacra give artistic cross-cultural results with an additional aesthetic effect representing fragments of a postmodern mosaic culture.