The brief review of semiotics, semantics and pragmatics of Perm animal style in Russian and foreign publications

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Abstract: Perm animal style is a kind of biomorphism in the art of Kama region’s peoples. The phenomenon of Perm animal style is connected with other kinds of animal style and has an influence on contemporary art, and therefore attracts the interest of Russian and foreign experts. The objective of this research is to make a review of some historical, archeological, cultural and artistic publications of Russian and foreign authors, adverting to the analysis of semiotic system, common outlook and the role of animal style in the formation of Kama region biomor -phism’s identity. Keywords: biomorphism, Perm animal style, Finno-Ugric culture, ethno-futurism.The preservation of local and national figurative systems is the essential condition of their oblivion pre-vention, especially in the modern conditions of world culture development, which has globalization and urban-istic character. Such ethnic figurative systems are con-nected with nature in a more balanced way, as compared to the modern trends, grown out of cultural symbols con-vergence. It means that they are national and authentic patterns which can contribute to the creation of video- ecological cultural environment in the modern world and provide ideal conditions for our country identity in the framework of multipolar cultural world. Except for the global self-identity, the issue of inner identity is one of the most acute in the modern Russian society.The modern Russian state includes dozens of areas, each having the unique history. Despite the growing tempo of globalization, the “Mental borders” of these territories are vividly seen both, in people’s perception and in the administrative state division. Strange as it may seem, near-the –folk data about the territory of settlement cause more interest among all the layers of the society, than medieval and new age history. For example, in Perm Krai, Komi Republic, Republic of Udmurtiya and in other neighbouring Ural areas the issue of initial national iden-tity and the awareness of connection with other native peoples sounds more than acute. Various youth and cul-tural projects and associations prove that point. For in-stance, KAMWA, the association of Finno-Ugric youth etc, the growth of interest to native language learning.Speaking about material culture, folk and applied arts in connection with the Perm Krai area, the creation of decorative articles – “decorative metal works” – is the closest and the most comprehensible form of the envi-ronment’s aesthetic vision. Decorative metal works have always been present in the routine and spiritual life of the Ural man [4]. The beginnings of Ural’s artistic metal works essentially correspond to such phenomenon as “Perm animal style”. The vast collections of Perm ani-mal style articles are assembled in Perm Krai and Komi Republic museums. Besides, the archeological findings, corresponding to this flow, are presented in the collec-tions of the Hermitage and the number of Moscow and Scandinavian museums.Certainly, Perm animal style is not the only example of early biomorphic syncretism in the world culture. It also existed as the element of development in Scyth-ian, Finnish and ancient Greek cultures [5]. However, it is exactly Perm animal style which has the number of unique traits with the meanings still difficult for inter-pretation, as it was developed in the conditions of partial ethnicism. The interest to its articles semantics’ study has both philosophic-cultural and purely historic-archeolog -ical grounds. Therefore the study of Perm animal style as a simultaneous illustration of history and material culture is always placed at the turn of several scientific spheres. This style’s semiotics, semantics and pragmatics are equally important for its understanding. The study of perm animal style from such point of view undoubtedly contributes to the enrichment of contemporary local and world culture.The objective of this research is to make a review of some historical, archeological, cultural and artistic pub -lications of Russian and foreign authors, adverting to the analysis of semiotic system, common outlook and