Improvisation as the specific element of creative activity

Article deals with improvisation as an integral element of creative activity. Author assumes that in a contemporary postmodernist culture improvisation is not merely a feature but rather a separate specific element of creative activity and can, therefore, be considered an independent category of modern aesthetics. As of today the range of problems in question appears to be especially important because the phenomenon of improvisation is unarguably thoroughly intertwined with the art of postclassical era. As a proof there of, historical analysis of form sand methods of improvisation usage in art is provided, together with characteristic of position of improvisation within contemporary postmodernist cultural environment, and the analysis of direct connection of the improvisation concept with the most important components of aesthetical categorical framework.