[2] He is also a laureate of the State Prize of Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (1996) for the monograph "Culture of Byzantium in IV—XV centuries" in three volumes.
[6] Bychkov calls Pseudo-Dionysius the pinnacle of "Byzantine aesthetics", who distinguished the construction (analogy), likening and imitation (mimesis), and also elaborates in detail the concept of a symbol.
V. V. Bychkov attributed the following characteristic features of Russian aesthetics: "sophism" – the unity of wisdom and beauty or expressed ideality), "sobornost" (rus.
When describing modernity, V. V. Bychkov uses the concept of "post-culture" (as the antithesis of the traditional spiritual world of Culture), where the role of the creator is belittled, and the artist becomes "a tool in the hands of curators".
[7] The main features of post-culture are contextualism, equalization of all meanings, bringing marginality to the fore, replacing traditional imagery and symbolism with simulation and simulacrum; artistry — with intertextuality, polystylism, citation; conscious mixing of elements of high and popular culture in the concept of an artifact, the dominance of kitsch and camp, the removal of value criteria, the absolutization of any gesture of the artist as a unique and significant phenomenon".