The Image of History as Artistic Dominant of the Urban Environment

The article is devoted to the problem of the artistic image in the historical city environment. Image of history is perhaps the most anticipated and developed context for the work of an architect, designer, or artist. At the same time, this resource has a clearly expressed "educational" character, preserving faith in the value of a material artifact and respect for the memory of the lost material. There are several actual manifestations of this resource: museumification, conservation, reconstruction of lost environmental fragments; contextualism and its versions; metaphors, symbols and archetypal meanings; immersion in the atmosphere of the past-creating a special aura; prolongation of history. A special facet is the idea of glocalization at the intersection of global trends and local traditions. Today, the concept of a "museum" is clearly not enough: understanding a living city is more viable. That is why the creation of a complete myth in the personal mental field of a person on the basis of personal history has a special artistic potential. The article offers a version of reading history in the modern city multilayered reality based on the author's concept of art integration in architecture.