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The article substantiates the prospects of theoretical and art-historical research of Mongolian temple architecture, based on extensive historical and art descriptions. It is indicated that the actual task is the interpretation of temple architecture. The experience of application of iconological method in disclosure of semantics of architectural monuments in Western Europe is presented. On the basis of this, for the first time, applied to the Mongolian architecture, the author proposes the methodological iconolog...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the creativity of the modern Mongolian artist Zorigt Uyanga. The author pays special attention to the means of artistic expressiveness used by the artist in the series “Women of Mongolia”. The paper provides art-critical research of cultural and historical background which forms the basis of the series. It reveals a special interest of the artist to the role and semantic of costume (or its absence) and traditional female hairdo. Mentioned points and their modification in g...

In 2015, as a result of historical and art studies of the complex of petroglyphs Rashaa-Khad in Mongolia, an indescribable anthropomorphic image was discovered, which was given the name "dancing shaman". It was located on the well-known and long-studied stele, on which a large number of tamgo-shaped signs of the Mongolian clans were carved. The image was located on the edge, poorly read because of the thick layer of organic matter. When clearing and copying through a special thin paper – mikalent, we were able to ...