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The purpose of the article is to analyse the main technologies of production of the tracing paper, to determine their characteristics and their influence on the state of preservation and methods of restoration. To describe the practical experience of restoration on the example of two projects executed on the tracing paper by architect P. Alyoshyn (projects). Methodology: analyse the art, methods of systematization, comparison, and generalization to determine the optimal methods of restoration and conservation measures for the preservation of heritage on the tracing paper. The scientific novelty consists in the introduction into scientific circulation of a comprehensive study of the main features and the implementation of restoration and conservation measures to preserve the works of architectural graphics on the tracing paper. Conclusions. The analysis of factors that should be considered when carrying out conservation and restoration measures for the preservation of collections made on tracing paper allow us to apply the experience gained in practice of preservation of monuments. It is established that the types and methods of making tracing paper affect the state of preservation and selection of methods for restoration and conservation processes. The successful practical experience of restoration of two works by architect P. Alyoshyn executed on tracing paper - "Concert hall" and "Facade of the Zemsky house" is described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the paper is to research the realisation of national idea in professional music creation. The research aims are the following: to reveal the essence of artistic-esthetic phenomenon of national idea; to distinguish basic principles of its manifestation in cultural and artistic heritage; to make a compendious retrospective review of the existing approaches the creators use to the given topic; to systematise the ways of implementing the national paradigm by means of music. Research methodology lies in the use of a set of methods. The analytical and structural-logical methods have been used to describe the concept of the national idea in creative work. The historical method has enabled the creation of the chronology of addressing the given paradigm in the composer’s activity. The method of sources analysis has been applied to study the existing scientific papers on the adjacent issues. The systemic analysis has been used to study the national idea as a complex sociocultural phenomenon, while the method of theoretical generalisation has helped to draw conclusions. Scientific novelty of the research. The article is the first attempt in Ukrainian study of art to generalise the problems of manifesting the national idea in music. Conclusions. Composers manifest national features in their music first of all through their reinterpretation of folk sources that concentrate cultural, philosophical, historical, geopolitical, and psychological knowledge of a specific ethnic group. In a more abstract form the national creation paradigm may be manifested through its connection with the traditions of professional art of a certain country via the use of typical music genres, the specificity of musical language, particular style, and the mode of thinking. Followers of the national idea in music make a lot of effort to restore traditions, their artistic reconsideration, actualization, and renewal with the projection to the modern. Moreover, they try to create a cultural «matrix», an original concept of the nation’s musical creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to define the key dominants of territorial topos and to reveal the specifics of their transmission to the artist’s biography. The research methodology is based on implementing the systemic approach by means of using a range of the following methods: the analytical method was used to grasp culture studies, philology, and arts studies sources in accordance with the paper issue; the philosophical method enabled considering biography within ontological discourse; the biographic method was used to characterise various domains of the artist’s being; the interdisciplinary method made it possible to comprehensively study the issue under consideration and obtain modern knowledge; the hermeneutic method was used to analyse the texts of the chronicles and to distinguish the typical features; the theoretical generalisation was used to summarise the research results. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that for the first time the author has revealed the key features of regional topos conceptualized by the master’s biography. Conclusions. Topos is an important paradigm of humanitarian studies reflecting the fundamental time and spatial ideas of macro-space and its laws. Regional topos is a form of image-bearing extention of questions referring to a certain territory, detailing its multifaceted nature, manifestation of its historical, civilisation, and social heritage. It restores valuable parameters of the locus’ being that have overcome various epochs and experienced different transformations but preserved stable codes, signs, symbols, as well as ethnic and professional traditions. Within the master’s biography, the aforementioned phenomenon is introduced by a complex of constituents where the predominant categories are as follows: “home” embraces the fundamentals of establishing the master’s world outlook, explains creativity issues, behaviour patterns; “childhood” reflects the image of happiness (or the wish to achieve it), trying to renew harmony, absolute love; “Small Motherland” implements the connection with native location revealing regional archetypes and specific mentality; “nature” demonstrates the unity of a person, matter, pantheistic restoring of strength, seeking the eternal creative themes, and the ability of occurring within cyclical time; “road” symbolises the content of the personality’s life path focused on eternity and spiritual immortality. The aforementioned toposes in chronicles give a key to understanding the master’s being. They do not function separately but interact, thus producing unique colouring and the sense colouration of the master’s ontology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]