AVANGARDA - POJAM, TEORIJE, KONTEKSTI
AVANT-GARDE – TERM, THEORIES, CONTEXTS

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to identify and shed light on some of the terminology definitions of the avant-garde as modern art. We must admit that the critics did not pay much attention to its essence, let alone its manifestations, and that is why there were rare attempts to interpret the concept of the avant-garde in the aesthetics collections and art history textbooks. It should, above all, be admitted that so far, there has been a few philosophers, historians and art critics who have deigned to study one of the most typical and most important phenomena of modern culture: the avant-garde art. This paper will specifically refer to the Russian avant-garde, where it penetrated very easily and quickly as a concept and a term. In addition, the theories of distinguished scholars and art historians will be considered: a professor at Harvard University, Renato Poggioli who pointed out the complicacy and the complexity of the matter. The following theoreticians of art also gave their contributions in defining the term of the avant-garde: Jose Ortega y Gasset, Peter Burger, Adrian Marino, Boris Arvatov and others.

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