Folk art as a topic of aesthetic theory

This article discusses the relation of aesthetic theory, and how in this paradigm finds himself folk art. Naturally, in those a context foreground the problem of determining nationality as a special category. A folk art is seen as a system of interrelated elements and a variety of relationships with the external environment, but originating in this way, as a special form of art, which is retaining the transformation function and changing reality. The author shows the need for a folk art as a specific understanding of ethnic and national identity, forming a cultural foundation and the paradigm in which there are other forms of culture.