Academic rank: Professor
Degree: Doctor of philosophical sciences
Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Rostov State University (1959) and the postgraduate course of the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1965).
PhD thesis topic: Aesthetics of Freudianism
The topic of the doctoral dissertation: Western concepts of artistic creativity
Lecturer of Aesthetics of the Department of Philosophy of Rostov State University.
1965-1967 - Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy of the Adygea State Pedagogical Institute;
1969-1977 - Senior Researcher at the Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Philosophy, Lomonosov Moscow State University;
1977 - Leading and chief researcher of the Russian Institute of Art Studies.
Problems of the history and theory of aesthetics, analysis of Western concepts of art (including Freudian and post-Freudian) and modernism in the visual arts.