Methodological deaccumulation of knowledge in art studies

The article is devoted to the substantiation of the possibility of using methodological deaccumulation of knowledge as a strategic cognitive approach in the art studies researches. Importance of input in the art studies disciplinary turn of such approach is caused by need to look for optimal means which could be used for overcoming discourse of the art studies researches – one of the main issues of art studies which undermines fundamental bases of its disciplinary identity. That approach is functional and takes the place of a strategic approach, serving the meta-paradigmal and special methodological cognitive strategies based on the transition from the naturalistic to the activity approach to cognition. In such quality the methodological deaccumulation of knowledge replaces a cumulative stage of the program of science- research activity and sets new productive initial cognitive conditions in which need of obligatory inclusion of the researcher in a conceptual discourse and polemic with conceptual predecessors is overcome. Thus, that approach not only optimizes an individual work of the researcher-art critic who is relieved of irresistible discursive dependence caused by to the pre-paradigmal specificity of art studies as a specific disciplinary subject, but, most importantly, it lays the foundations for a fundamentally new disciplinary culture, potentially possible as a normative for art studies.

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