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Avangarda şi Revoluţia
Avant-Garde and Revolution

Author(s): Ovidiu Morar
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Editura Tracus Arte
Keywords: Avant-garde; revolution; cosmopolitism

Summary/Abstract: If, in Ionesco’s well-known definition, the Avant-garde can be defined in “terms of opposition and rupture”, it follows that the main goal of any Avant-garde project would be the Revolution. This approach tries to emphasize the main connections and, respectively, tribulations of the relationship between Avant-garde and the idea of revolution, not only under the form of radical aesthetic innovation, but also under the political aspect. It reveals the fact that all Avant-garde movements, including the Romanian Avant-garde of the thirties, shared the main idea of social emancipation as a necessary condition for human liberation.

  • Issue Year: XV/2019
  • Issue No: 1 (29)
  • Page Range: 197-204
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian