Perception and Teaching Issues in Artistry through the Texts of Alexey Selivachyov, Kharkiv Cultural Studies Scholar

The purpose of the article is to specify the ideological, aesthetic and ethical factors of a drastic reassessment of the value of the classics for the modernity of the beginning of the 20th century, in the period that is commonly called the Silver Age of culture. The processes of such reconsideration, where the culminating point was the vulgar sociological humiliation of the artistic classics as a result of the events of 1917, began not in the proletarian environment, but in academic circles, which subsequently suffered the most from the revolution. The relevance of the topic stems from the coverage of one of the aspects of the change in the humanitarian discourse at the stage of the revolutionary transition from one sociopolitical formation to another – exactly a century ago. The objective outlined in the purpose of the article is studied on the basis of the analysis of the scientific and journalistic activities of one of the talented young representatives of the academic Kharkiv environment, who wrote a dissertation under the guidance of Academician M. Sumtsov and considered the issues of perception and teaching of artistic creativity. The sources of the study were mainly unpublished manuscripts of A. Selivachyov, which are preserved in the family archive. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the introduction of these sources into scientific circulation. Conclusions. It has been demonstrated that the glorification of the folklore and poetic classics at the end of the 19th century was quickly replaced by a critical attitude at the beginning of the next century. And this was facilitated by a wide variety of factors, from conservative antiprogressive ideas to modernist and avant-garde intentions of radical renewal