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The research objective. The purpose of the research is to consider the historical development of artistic creativity and to determine its features, mechanisms of its functioning, the interaction of the material and the spiritual at various stages of its formation. For this, it is necessary to consider the philosophical and aesthetic thought of the past: to analyze the philosophical searches of the thinkers of antiquity, the aesthetic views of the philosophers of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the New Age, the concepts of German classical philosophy, non-classical philosophy - irrational approaches to artistic creativity and the modern understanding of aesthetic views, the essence of aesthetic feelings. It is also necessary to consider how artistic creativity is interconnected with the spiritual life of society and the individual.
Bogachev et al. (Sun,) studied this question.