ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ ЛЕКСИКОГРАФИЧЕСКОГО КАНОНА В СОВРЕМЕННОМ ИСКУССТВЕ

The article examines the ways in which modern Western authors use the canons of lexicographic representation of material in their texts. A dictionary as a collection of information about various phenomena contained in concepts, terms and their definitions is a universal form of knowledge. Dictionary representation allows you to record and transfer knowledge from generation to generation. Traditionally, the form of the dictionary is correlated with scientific discourse. Contemporary art creatively uses the established lexicographic canon. The external form of the dictionary is used almost unchanged, but the content of the dictionary entry is modified, and the author’s methods of presenting information are introduced. The functions of the dictionary are shifting towards the information and advertising discourse of non-commercial art. Contemporary authors initiate a creative approach to creating a dictionary of a new type of art - mail art. The material for our research are alphabetical dictionaries published in the magazines “Numero” and “Kairan” from the late 20th to early 21st centuries.