This book tells about what an art consists of, what questions it puts before creators and audience and as represents reality.A book consists of six divisions illuminative basic making arts : look, material, consciousness, loyalty, power and гендер. Through them the author of book exposes an art and work as the phenomena, and also conducts analogies between works of different periods and countries. All of it teaches us to see and hear artists through time and space.In Russian language published first.