The article deals with the problem of the anthropology of art in the aesthetical views of the the Russian religious thinker and literary critic Vladimir Veidle (1895-1979). According to Veidle, art has a sacred reason for its existence and is rooted in religious cult. Human activities in the field of aesthetics follow two directions: that of co-operation of the artist with the Creator, i. e. his participation in the creation of the language of culture, and that of his collaboration with other participants in the aesthetic process. As Veidle writes, the artist’s creative work always presupposes his appeal to the Other and direct participation of this Other in the creation of a work of art, the creation in which its author plays the role of just one of the many participants. The real author receives its embodiment in the linguistic forms of the artistic style which, according to Veidle’s definition, is the deep motivation of art. The secularization of culture has entailed disintegration of artistic style which, in turn, has caused the atomization of the author and the expulsion of art from man’s living space. The crisis of the European culture diagnosed by Veidle constitutes a part of the humanitarian catastrophe undergone by the world in the 20 ^th century. The article discusses the problems of artistic style, authorship, the “dying” of art and the uniqueness of a work of art. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the anthropological constituent of Veidle’s literary poetics.