On the question of the specificity of aesthetic consciousness in the Age of Romanticism

The relationship between aesthetic consciousness and reality is investigated in the article. The process of interaction between the aesthetic and artistic consciousness in the Romantic period is analyzed. Thesis that in the nineteenth century aesthetic consciousness as a set of aesthetic views of the era is formed in the literature, creating conditions for the transformation of Romanticism into a particular world view, substantiates in the article. The affect of literary and aesthetic processes of the romantic era on the forming of modernist aesthetics is investigated in the article.

aesthetic consciousness, romanticism, aesthetic ideal, perceptual knowledge, the art form