Abstract
Feelings such as moral disgust, protest and antipathy are increasingly understood as the most important aspects of cognitive processes in moral psychology and reveal the complex structure of human nature and culture. Transgressive fiction, cinema or visual arts which are characterized by a graphic representation of violence and different traumatic experiences, are a strong ethical stimulus. In this article, transgressive art is viewed through the prism of its multimodality. The article examines both the positive and negative roles of transgressive art in the constitution and the confirmation of the boundaries and limits of social acceptability. By acknowledging the risks of aestheticization of violence that can expand the ethical boundaries of a person as a witness, this study also elicits that transgressive art offers a safe environment for exploring taboos without consequences for the audience. Although transgressive art depicts various violations of moral norms, it does not deny the boundaries of what is permitted, but only confirms them.
 Keywords: transgressive art, multimodality, transgression, moral norms, public morality, ethical boundaries, screen violence
Highlights
Works of art regularly challenge established moral standards
It is important to understand that transgressive artists and viewers share certain moral norms, since public morality is based on norms and values that individuals share in their sociologically significant
Since the ethics of discourse implies that in consensus on moral standards the greatest of what we can achieve is only partial coherence, the article will examine the multimodality of transgression in art, which allows it to function as an indicator of the ethical boundaries of a person as a witness, not denying the limits of what is permitted, but affirming them
Summary
Works of art regularly challenge established moral standards. The genre of art thatSelection and Peer-review under the responsibility of the 4th СTPE 2019 Conference Committee.makes a shock value its essence is called transgressive art. Works of art regularly challenge established moral standards. Selection and Peer-review under the responsibility of the 4th СTPE 2019 Conference Committee. Makes a shock value its essence is called transgressive art. This article raises the question of whether transgressive art, by mobilizing moral judgments, can really influence a person's ethical boundaries. The concept of`transgression'' was developed in the framework of the non-classical philosophy of postmodernism by such authors as G. Transgression is an act or process of breaking a law or moral rule [1]. The transgression goes beyond the limits of the familiar habitual sphere of being or, in other words, goes beyond the limits of the`norm''. According to Foucault, transgression is`a gesture that
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