National Schools of the 20th Century: Cultural Identity or Conceptual Choice

The idea of contemporary art of the east as a creative periphery and the product of purely foreign influences is unsubstantiated and false. The formation of original schools can be of a programmatic nature in connection with the specificity of professional activity - the presence of creative consciousness, conceptual directions, both for the inheritance of traditions, and for external borrowings, their synthesis. There is an active correlation with foreign cultures, expanding aesthetic fronts of national art. These socio-cultural dynamics form qualitative components and the phenomenon of the "national school", not the abstract concept of "national culture", symbolizing the "scene of action" nor the specifics of the processes. For their understanding, it is necessary to reveal a complexity of factors of professional creative model of the school formation, the parameters of its self-determination and cultural-shaping role at all stages of formation of modern national architecture of the Soviet East, beginning with the design-construction situation of the 1920s.