This collection includes articles that were read and discussed in the form of reports at meetings of the Commission for the Study of the Philosophy of Art of the Philosophical Department of the State Academy of Art Sciences in 1926-27. included in the circle of study of the commission, the problem of portrait not only aroused great interest in the composition of the permanent participants of the commission, but also attracted a number of researchers from other scientific cells of the Academy, who took a lively part in the work of the commission and, in turn, made a number of independent reports.