title: THE IMPERIAL CULTURE AND VISUALITY: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE IMPERIAL IMAGE IN MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE
abstract: Imperial culture is a difficult ethnosociocultural phenomenon. Imperial culture exists in the multi-ethnic character of the states when one ethnos assumes the right for domination over other ethnoses and implementation of administrative and managerial functions at all levels of the organization of the state institutional and investment and communication system. Imperial ambitions of such states surely lead to the fact that the dominating social subjects use culture as a way of legitimization and
journal: IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences