In article the phenomenon of objectification of the work of art in culture, in particular in the period of «literaturocentrizm» is investigated. «The art thing» in the sphere of political culture is analyzed. An attempt to consider censorship not only, and not so much in biographic or historical measurements how many to define it as a certain constant of culture which has procedural character is made. The phenomenon of censorship is studied as certain «influence» on art «thing», on the sphere of the author.