Aesthetics of Samarkand in Ilgiz Fazulzyanov’s Jewelry Art: Heritage as an Area of Creativity

The editorial board of the journal presents a conversation of Vladimir Ionesov (Doctor of Culturology, Professor, Samara State Institute of Culture) with Ilgiz Fazulzyanov, a well-known Russian artist and jeweler. The issues of aesthetic transformation of national traditions in modern applied art are discussed on the example of the jewelry collection «Samarkand». The article reveals the peculiarities of artistic design in jewelry art, the aesthetics of the historical heritage of Samarkand, and the interaction of the past and the present in the dialogue of cultures and time as well as semantic, stylistic and value attitudes in the creative design of modern jewelry art objects. National artistic traditions are considered as a source of high inspiration, a generator of new cultural practices and actual creative work.