Aesthetic Credo of Josephin Peladan - "Demon" of French Symbolism
In the article aesthetic credo of Josephin Peladan as prominent representative of a mystical branch of the French objective symbolism, its Christian-neoplatonic line is analyzed. His concepts of correlation of art and religion, art creativity, aesthetic contemplation and pleasure, beauty, high, tragical, aesthetic ideal, artisticity, symbolization in art, its anagogical missions are examined.