"Новите” в художествената критика
The News in the Eyes of the Critics

Summary/Abstract: With its first creative realizations the association of New artists initiated one of the most modern movements in Bulgarian artistic culture during the 1930s. regarding the artistic views of the News there exist a number of publications in spite of the fact that the history and role of the association in the general context of our visual culture of the 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s has not been properly researched. The changes in the political, social and artistic discourse during the different historical periods have led to controversial critical views on their role and place in the artistic processes in the country. Or in other words – the key points that disclose their presence in contemporary art life have been limited to the social position in art of some of the representatives of the News, the concentration of the expressive possibilities of the artistic expression and their point of view towards the problem of tradition. The aim of the present study is to trace the changes in the ‘camera’s point of view’ towards these changes in a number of typical for the critical reflection of those times research. The accents in the critical reflection of the activities of the News exemplified itself quite clearly in the book New Bulgarian Art by Nikola mavrodinov, The Realism in New Bulgarian Art by Ljuben Belmustakov, Bulgarian Revolutionary Graphics by atanas Bozhkov, Chronicles of a Dramatic Decade by Dimitar avramov; in the thematic issues of the journals Art and Art Studies Quarterly, etc. that have been published till the middle of the 1990s. Place in a reverse historical perspective the critical views become quite indicative of the specifics of the social and cultural climate of the times. in the long run the simultaneous study of this critical dialogue helps us define the phenomena from the distance of the present day.

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