This monograph considers the main philosophical problems of aesthetics: "aesthetic" as the basis of other aesthetic properties of reality; beautiful, sublime, tragic, comic, ugly, baseless in reality and in art; aesthetic taste; philosophical problems of art (mimesis and creativity, the problem of the essence, purpose and boundaries of art, artistic talent, fate and responsibility of the artist in society). Much attention is paid to the causes and consequences of the modern crisis in aesthetics, as well as the phenomenon of anti-art. The book is recommended to philosophers, culturologists, art historians, students and graduate students of relevant specialties, as well as a wide range of readers interested in issues of aesthetics and art.