Kritinės ekspresionizmo refleksijos: „romantinės jausenos" kultūra ir lingvistiniai ready-made'ai
Critical Reflections on Expressionism: The Culture of “Romantic Feeling” and Linguistic Ready-Mades

Summary/Abstract: The concept of expressionism is a category of broad semantic field in Lithuanian art studies. It denominates aesthetic values, as well as the type of cultural identity and social attitude in analyzing the art of the Soviet period. This article presents theories reflecting expressionism in art, framed in Western theoretical discourse. One of the most important and still vital analytical traditions is based on the notion of expressionism as a phenomenon pertaining to the influence of romantic culture, when the mode of romantic feeling is considered as the basic principle orienting the organization of expressionistic poetics. The representatives of Marxist aesthetics reflect on the social efficiency of expressionism as artistic practice and its relation to ideology; while contemporary theorists, influenced by structural linguistics and poststructuralism, underscore the meaning of expressionism as a specific language in representing certain ideologies. Current theories open up new possibilities to contextualize the expressionistic discourse and to analyze its meanings.

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