Art and Literature Scientific and Analytical Journal Texts 2.2015 Bruxelles, 2015 EDITORIAL BOARD Chief editor Burganova M. A. Bowlt John Ellis (USA) — Doctor of Science, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures in University of Southern California; Burganov A. N. (Russia) — Doctor of Science, Professor of Stroganoff Moscow State Art Industrial University, Full-member of Russia Academy of Arts, National Artist of Russia, member of the Dissertation Council of Stroganoff Moscow State Art Industrial University; Burganova M. A. (Russia) — Doctor of Science, Professor of Stroganoff Moscow State Art Industrial University, Full-member of Russia Academy of Arts, Honored Artist of Russia, member of the Dissertation Council of Stroganoff Moscow State Art Industrial University, editor-in-chief; Glanc Tomáš (Germany) — Doctor of Science of The Research Institute of East European University of Bremen (Germany), and assistant professor of The Charles University (Czech Republic); Kazarian Armen (Russia) — Architectural historian, Doctor of Fine Arts in The State Institute of Art History, Advisor in Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences; Kravetsky A. G. (Russia) — Candidate of Sciences, research associate of Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lavrentyev Alexander N. (Russia) — Doctor of Arts, Professor of Stroganoff Moscow State Art Industrial University and Moscow State University of Printing Arts; Alessandro De Magistris (Italy) — PhD, Full-Professor of History of Architecture Politecnico di Milano Department of Architecture and Urban Studies; Misler Nicoletta (Italy) — Professor of Modern East European Art at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples; Pavlova I. B. (Russia) — Candidate of Sciences, Senior Researcher of Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences; ISSN 2294-8902 © TEXTS, 2015 Pletneva A. A. (Russia) — Candidate of Sciences, research associate of Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Pociechina Helena (Poland) — Doctor of Science; Profesor of the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn; Pruzhinin B. I. (Russia) — Doctor of Sciences, Professor, editor-in- chief of Problems of Philosophy; Ryzhinsky A. S. (Russia) — Candidate of Sciences, Senior lecturer of Gnesins Russian Academy of Music; Sahno I. M. (Russia) — Doctor of Sciences, Professor of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia; Sano Koji (Japan) — Professor of Toho Gakuyen University of Music; Shvidkovsky Dmitry O. (Russia) — Vice-President of Russian Academy of Arts and its secretary for History of Arts, and Full member; Rector of Moscow Institute of Architecture, Doctor of Science, Professor, Full member of Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, Full member of the British Academy; Tanehisa Otabe (Japan) — Doctor of Sience, Professor, Head of Department of Aesthetics at Tokyo; Tolstoy Andrey V. (Russia) — Doctor of Sciences, professor in the History of Art at the Moscow State Institute of Architecture, a Full member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts and President of the Russian National section of International Association of Art Critics (AICA) affiliated with UNESCO; Tsivian Yuri (USA) — Doctor of Science, Professor, University of Chicago, Departments: Cinema and Media Studies, Art History, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Editor Smolenkova J. (Russia) TABLE OF CONTENTS Tatiana G. Malinina A Work of Art as a Document of an Epoch — the Result of a Collective Interdisciplinary Research 8 Zinaida S. Pyshnovskaya Biedermeier and Its Place in the History of German Art 20 Elena V. Noskova The Role of Mikhail Vrubel and Peter Vaulin in the Development of Russian Ceramics of the 19th-20th centuries 29 Diana V. Keypen-Warditz Russian Church of Christ the Savior in San Remo 42 Maria A. Burganova Monumental Sculpture in Russia in 1918—1919 57 Elena V. Lobanova Unknown Pages of Nikolai Myaskovsky’s Chamber and Vocal Creativity 73 Ekaterina Matveeva The concept of culture in language teaching process: Secondary Linguistic Personality 77 Peter Hagsér The exhibition Silent sound of human nature at the art gallery in Trollhättan by Viktor Korneev 82 Dear Readers, The tenth issue of The Art and Literature Scientific and Analytical Journal TEXTS is before you. For us, this is the first anniversary and we are glad to celebrate it with you! We are grateful for your attention to our journal. The publication of relevant research papers bytop-class scientists, who are unique and leading experts in their respective fields, is one of the strategic objectives of the journal. In our journal, we aim to create a dialogue space for different cultural fields. We aim at the preservation of cultural heritage and an expansion of cultural and scientific relations. These objectives determine the high selection criteria and are the key to high-level scientific publications. Sincerely, Maria A. Burganova Editor-in-Chief — 6 — Our thanks The Art and Literature Scientific and Analytical Journal TEXTS is created by remarkable highly professional and friendly team, to whom our gratitude is addressed now. Thanks to our wonderful editorial board from different countries and continents: John Ellis Bowlt, Alexander N. Burganov, Maria A. Burganova, Tomáš Glanc, Armen Kazarian, Alexander G. Kravetsky, Alexander N. Lavrentyev, Alessandro De Magistris, Nicoletta Misler, Irina B. Pavlova, Alexandra A. Pletneva, Helena Pociechina, Boris I. Pruzhinin, Alexander S. Ryzhinsky, Irina M. Sahno, Koji Sano, Dmitry O. Shvidkovsky, Tanehisa Otabe, Andrey V. Tolstoy, Yuri Tsivian. Your professionalism and attention allow us to develop and become better! We thank all the employees of the Moscow and Brussels offices for the excellent work. We thank our wonderful English translator Anna Pchelkina and our French translators Valery Matveev and Rusina Shihatova! We thank our editor Julia Smolenkova and our layout designer Alexander Tovpeko! We thank all our authors for their interesting articles and scientific research papers! This project would not have been realised without you ☺ Thanks to all our readers for your interest in our work! We thank our Editor-in-Chief Maria Burganova for her selfless work, patience, attention, professionalism and energy that make this journal better and more interesting with each issue as well constantly expand! — 7 — Tatiana G. Malinina. A Work of Art as a Document of an Epoch Tatiana G. Malinina Doctor of Art History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts. [email protected] Moscow, Russia A WORK OF ART AS A DOCUMENT OF AN EPOCH — THE RESULT OF A COLLECTIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH Summary: The conference paper by T. Malininа “A Work of Art as a Document of an Epoch — the Result of a Collective Interdisciplinary Research”. The author of the concept, an organizer and a participant, analyzes materials and summarizes the International research and practical conference “A Work of Art as a Document of an Epoch” (Research Institute of Arts, Russian Academy of Arts, 23—24.03, 2011), which became the first one in a series of contemporary interdisciplinary humanities forums dedicated to studying methodological experience of interpretation of a work of art. In present-day historical studies, a pronounced tendency to widely use visual sources has brought to the fore a development of methodology of interdisciplinary researches. Their immediate aim is to create a coordinate system, which would allow a deeper insight into the meaning of what is happening; to get answers to new questions, addressed to the experience of the past by science today; to form a more complete, integrated picture of a cultural epoch, seen through the eyes of a modern man and reflecting the modern view on history in the methods of interpretation. Art plays an important role in modern methods of studying human — society — culture. Interests of different humanities focus in a work of art like in a lens. The movement of science toward art has its own specifics at present. Relation of art to reality becomes more and more indirect. — 8 — Tatiana G. Malinina. A Work of Art as a Document of an Epoch Science seeks truth, while art has truth in itself. Scientists are researching “strategies” to work with visual sources on the basis of understanding the specifics of artistic creativity. A historian does not consider an image in art to be a “mould of reality” or the fruit of imagination anymore; as it becomes clear only in an appropriate discourse, a historian sees his task of “solving”, “decoding”, “reading” the message contained in an artwork. In turn, a work of art — its form, the symbolism, semantics, methods of transmission and the accuracy of the extracted information, become the subject of reflection and art criticism. Today theoretical thought in art is related to an urgent need of art to use methodological tools of the humanities while maintaining its proper subject foundations and meanings. Due to the development of cultural, sociological and other approaches, discourses, methods of scientific statements, the fact of creating a work of art and its function and meaning of art, appear to be secondary to its not immanent theory. Art in these structures disperses its identity to a great extent, becoming a comment and an illustration. Since the time of N. Tchernyshevskiy’s thesis defense (“Aesthetic Relation of Art to Reality”), the interpretation of interrelations between an artistic expression and a fact, fiction and a fact in an artistic