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**Chapter 2**

**Abstract**

Excursions and Cultural Heritage

(Practice and Methodology of Art

Modern society is characterized by the desire for information saturation. The range of cultural and historical material from which art history excursions are drawn is truly boundless. Meanwhile, if we compare the number of excursions with all their well-thought-out structure, excursions of an art criticism will undoubtedly turn out to be a clear minority. In the fields of the excursion scenario, there are sometimes question marks left by the tourists. Art objects have their own criteria, specifics and features. To understand them and to comprehend them at the scientific and theoretical level is an actual task for art critics and critics themselves. This chapter highlights the problems of modern excursion work as a form of communication, which is a special system, the important elements of which are the author's text, closely associated with the art criticism and the display of works of art in

**Keywords:** guide, art object, visual material, art criticism analysis, methods of updating information, museum collections, storage units, demonstration method,

The modern world is dealing with all kinds of information, and its art objects can be no longer presented through a purely empirical, descriptive and documentary approach. This representation hinders observations and often makes them subjective. Thus, today's guides aim to display visual materials from a creative and well-targeted viewpoint. Art criticism plays a crucial role in fulfilling this objective. Guided tours on art-related topics improve one's artistic taste through a visual contact with authentic art pieces. They teach the history of culture and society and enrich the knowledge of our reality and its reflection in art, i.e. these forms of aesthetic education are among the most popular and effective. Each piece of art (whether it is a painting, architectural object, drawing, sculpture, handicraft object, etc.) is a kind of magnet that attracts the viewer's attention and forms their aesthetic beliefs. Having completely opposite perspectives, they intertwine and define the functional orientation of art pieces, their ability to reveal themselves in works of art and be explained by these works and the analysis of their fulfilment of

complex display, diachronic and synchronous approaches

in the Contemporary World

Criticism Analysis)

*Tatiana Vasil'evna Portnova*

museums and in open spaces.

**1. Introduction**
