Philosophy of the Work of Art as the Philosophy of the Masterpiece: The Role of Current Ukrainian Art

Contemporary art is associated not only with the emergence of a new era of sincerity, but also with the reworking of the experience of trauma as a result of Ukrainian culture and artistic consciousness being under totalitarian-imperial rule. The purpose of the study is to explore the philosophical and anthropological dimension of the artistic object in contemporary art, as well as the blurring of artistic boundaries, the revision of the cultural status of the masterpiece, including the place of the masterpiece in the system of values, which was laid down in the phenomenological concepts of art. Research methods: hermeneutic, phenomenological, art history. Scientific novelty. A conclusion is made about the fullness of the concept, the admissibility and prospects of the masterpiece and the sacralization of the everyday in the space of contemporary art, and the elements of the structure of the space of contemporary art are clarified, in interaction with the issue of human (self)awareness. Non-classical and post-non-classical philosophical concepts are trying to return humanism to art, the canon and genre certainty are criticized, but instead there is a blurring of not only the masterpiece, but also the very concepts of values and worth. Conclusions The traditional philosophical discussion about the nature of art and the authorship of a work of art has been further developed. Max Scheler's phenomenology reveals significant heuristic potential for the hermeneutics of contemporary art, the return of the masterpiece and craftsmanship to artistic culture, where art acts not only as evidence of traumatic and post-traumatic experience, but also as the basis for new identities. Іn particular, this is a re-evaluation of the role of the body and spirit, the invincibility of the Ukrainian people, and the hierarchy of values, in which the viewer is involved as an empathetic co-participant.