About the book: 2022 / It’s easy to judge art, and even easier to understand it. This collection of lectures is a guide to the intricacies of philosophical optics and the many ways of deconstructing the world of art - a world where pure aesthetics and revolutionary manifesto are intertwined. Professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Associate Professor, Doctor of Philology tells us about the laws by which art exists, where the frames that limit it are, and how long ago it became what it is..