About the book: year / The article was written in 1841 and was intended for Belinsky’s “Critical History of Russian Literature.” Belinsky raises here with great depth the question of the essence of artistic form and content. His teaching is directed against formalism and flat empiricism. Belinsky did not finish the article and stopped at the definition of the idea of ​​art, but he gave it in a number of other articles, in which he had already completely broken the connection with Hegelian aesthetics.