LITERARY REPRESENTATION OF AN ARTIST'S WORKSHOP AS AN INTERMEDIAL SPACE

The paper researches an artist's workshop as a specific space and subject of artistic representations in literary works. The Ukrainian nineteenth-and twentieth-century fiction, as well as memoirs and testimony, were used to analyze the interplay of different arts in the creative space of an artist; functionality of the art workshops during different cultural and historical periods in various cultural environments have been discussed. A distinction has been drawn between the presentation characteristic of artists and that of writers who describe the artist's workshops; focus is placed on intermedial refer-ences typical for such descriptions. It is shown how descriptions of art accentuated spaces problematize the range of aesthetic and creative issues connected to existential experience and intentions of artists.

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This paper examines the representation of artist's workshops as a specific space and subject in literary works. Through the analysis of Ukrainian fiction, memoirs, and testimony from the 19th and 20th centuries, the interplay of different arts in the creative space of an artist is studied, along with the functionality of art workshops in different cultural and historical periods. The article distinguishes between the presentation characteristics of artists and writers in describing artist's workshops, with a focus on intermedial references typical in such descriptions. It also explores how descriptions of art accentuated spaces problematize the aesthetic and creative issues connected to the existential experience and intentions of artists.