Humanist-modernist paradigm of art in the context of self-management socialism Cover Image

Humanističko-modernistička paradigma umjetnosti u kontekstu samoupravnog socijalizma
Humanist-modernist paradigm of art in the context of self-management socialism

Author(s): Karla Lebhaft
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Centar za alternativno društveno i kulturno delovanje
Keywords: Humanism;Modernism;Marxism;Neo-avant-garde;Exat 51;New Tendencies;Matko Meštrović;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to draw a historical transition from a doctrinaire socialist realism to a specific form of Yugoslav modernist culture and explain the emergence of neo-constructivist line in Neo-avant-garde paradigm (EXAT 51, New Tendencies), which has positioned itself as a utopian-projective-humanistic critique, or ‘internal audit’ of the same Yugoslavian modernism. This was attempted to be achieved by analyzing the formation of humanistic paradigm and its connection with the criticism of socialist realism and the birth of socialist modernism in art and beyond, in the Yugoslav culture that has developed within the Marxist ideological horizon. The paper thus tries to recognize certain concepts through the recognition of degrees of understanding art, its function and status in society, in relation to Marxist theory.

  • Issue Year: 1/2016
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 69-97
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Croatian