Construction of the aesthetic sphere

Abstract

Many various approaches to the problem of links between the spheres of information and aesthetics are possible (see, e.g., Moles, 1958, 1967; Bense, 1969), and one of these approaches seems to be the key to study of culture. This key approach deals with the informational origins, or roots, of different branches of culture. The main problem is to deduce each branch from the deductive model of the human system of information processing, to «construct» the aesthetic sphere by a purely deductive procedure (see also Makhmudov and Petrov, 1984; Petrov, 1991/Ref. 7; Sheremetjewa and Petrov, 1991/Ref. 3), as well as to conceive — also by the deductive method — the place of art among the various objects constituting the world of culture.

I sit in a wood and stare

Up at untroubled branches

Locked together and staunched as

Though girders of the air:

And think, the first wind rising

Will crack that intricate crown

And let the daylight down.

But there is naught surprising

Can explode the single mind: —

Let figs from thistles fall

Or stars from their pedestal,

This architecture will stand.

C. Day-Lewis, Transitional Poem.