Art Between Scylla and Charybdis

In his opening address at a discussion of the book: V. V. Bychkov, N. B. Mankovskaya, and V. V. Ivanov, Trialogue: Living Aesthetics and the Contemporary Philosophy of Art (Moscow, 2012), held on 27 February 2012 at the S. Gerasimov All-Russia State University of Cinematography (VGIK), the author shows that Trialogue came into existence as a result of interpretation, polemical debate, and further development of ideas formulated in his early fundamental work. The Artistic Apocalypse of Culture (in 2 vols, Moscow, 2008). The key idea of both books is V. Bychkov's hypothesis of Culture -post- culture drawn from radical processes that take place in art, aesthetics, and the culture of the last century.