Synthesis of arts as an aesthetic utopia of the revolution

Abstract

The article defends the thesis that synthetic trends in art arise as a result of the rise in the culture and its worldview commitment to integrity, domination of collective, generic base. Synthesis of social practice, of the spheres of spiritual activities shows the maximum mobilization of the creative forces and vital energies of society, its ability to move to a new progressive level of development via a revolution. These revolutionary changes in all spheres of life occurred in Russia in the early twentieth century. It was then that the attention of the artistic intellectuals was attracted by the problem of synthesis of arts in which they saw the possibility of unity and spiritual transformation of the Russian society. Author interprets the idea of synthesis of art of the early twentieth century as the „aesthetic utopia“ and explores the specific forms of its manifestation in the Russian artistic culture.