Ziva V.F.
CULTURE-PROTECTIVE MISSION OF ART EDUCATION ^{[№ 11 ' 2008]}
The article covers the role of institutes of higher professional art education as establishments where training, devolution of skills and art reproduction are closely interrelated. The mission of artistic culture, which is unique at ability of accumulation of the social and cultural experience of generations and convert it to the personal experience of an individual, is aimed at development of spirituality of a person and society. Educational institutions with artistic specialization have a significant influence upon the role and functions of culture in the existence of a state and its citizens, and staff education as a whole is oriented at preservation and development of cultural and historic and national traditions.