M.M. Bakhtin's lecture on aesthetics recorded by G.M. Zakharova (Berezina). The end of the 1950s. Publication, opening article and notes by N.I. Voronina

The article considers the abstract of M.M. Bakhtin’s lecture on aesthetics, as recorded in the late 1950s by G.M. Zakharova (Berezina) - a (former) student of the philological faculty of Mordovia State University. It reveals the structure of the lecture, the meaningful filling of its sections. The lecture gives a definition of the aesthetic in all its manifestations (in life, in everyday life, in art), the definition of art as creativity “according to the laws of beauty”, the definition of the basic concepts of art historical analysis: color, volume, space, style.