The artist in the era of technical reproducibility

Abstract

A mass reproduction-replication-reducing is considered as an evolutionary algorithm of the current phase of democratization. The result of this process in the era of technological repro-ducibility is the tendency to the extinction of the art as an autonomous domain of culture and to degeneration of the artist. Contemporary artistic culture is a culture of juvenilism. One may consider an obvious cultural neoteny as a transitional phase that completes the era artists - prophets and opens the way to new forms of intuitive cognition.