Искусство _vs_ искусства: К орфической топике позднего Блока (музыка/ритм) [Art vs the Arts: Orphic Ideas in the Late Alexander Blok (Music/Rhythm)]

Abstract

This article explores the concept of rhythm in Alexander Blok’s later works. While in the 1900s, Blok, who was a supporter of the utilitarian idea of literature, understood rhythm as the primary tool for lyric poetry’s impact on the world (using Karl Bücher’s theories on the genesis and role of rhythm), during the Revolution, he declared rhythm to be the phenomenon underlying art as a whole. Moreover, following Richard Wagner’s “Art and Revolution” he completely rejected the idea of differentiating the arts and took a decidedly negative view of the specification of aesthetic value as such, that is, the very foundations of the cultural system of modernity. How is the concept of rhythm in Blok’s thinking connected to his rejection of the division of labor in the aesthetic sphere? What is the reason for his complete disregard for aesthetic modernity? These are just a few questions this article will address.