PERMANENT REFLEXIVE-METHODOLOGICAL WORK IN THE CONDITIONS OF ART STUDIES
Object of research are methodological tools which could be used for the translation of art studies as specific disciplinary object from pre-paradigmal state in which it is now, in paradigmatic state. Such methodology is explained as result of the transition from the naturalistic approach to cognition as used in art and in all humanitarian sciences to the approach to the active cognition, in the framework of which it is possible to maintain permanent reflexive and methodological activity as a specific methodological strategy allowing to make a required transfer. The descriptive-analytical methodology is introduced as general line in the presentation of the subject of the research, completed with applied activity approach and method of theoretical modeling allowing to construct a sufficient ontological scheme for the subject field of art studies. This methodology is one of the main requirements for the functional use of permanent reflexive and methodological work of sufficient quality. The novelty of the research is that on the basis of the analysed methodological tools, specific to humanities, two essentially new conditions for research activity in art studies area as specific disciplinary object are now put forward, the first of which allows to form a full paradigmal knowledge in relation to art, and the second allows to implement functional research work, with respect to existing knowledge, reshaping art studies as independent disciplinary object without paradigmal component.