Primitive ritual as a super-eidos in the self-development of art

In the era of transitivity there is a question in the new global scientific aspect: what is Art? The need to understand the essence of art as a holistic phenomenon requires a deep study and reflection in the context of the modern world view and discoveries of nonlinearity. The article presents a new methodological approach to the phenomenon of the Origin, which helps to encompass the outside, formal aspect of the manifestations of Art and its original essence. The article states the need to study the Art as a cultural and historical integrity, highly complex self-developing system in a single logic of its development from origin to the present.