Proroczy aspekt awangardy
The prophetic aspect to the avant-garde

Author(s): Bożena Tokarz
Subject(s): Literary Texts, Music, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The art and poetry of the historical avant-garde contains prophetic elements referring to the later artistic development, which are not subject to a simple continuation but rather continuation via degradation. They result from the two prevalent tendencies at that time: from aesthetic aristocratism in the midst modern civilization’s equalizing tendencies and from seizure of non-art areas, rejection of tradition and reaching for sources; as well as from the perceived blemishes in the image of monolithic perfection. The post-avant-garde work rejected the ideology of the historical avant-garde believing in the role of the artist in the world, in unity, in aesthetic, social and technological utopias, by undertaking the following artistic activities: destruction in construction, language relativism, momentary artistic creation, emotionality against anti-emotionality, hybrid forms, anti-aestheticism, diffusion of arts, the focalization and multinterpretability of the world. The works of Srečko Kosovel and Julian Przyboś have in a different way initiated changes in the post-avant-garde poetry, using some of the mentioned strategies for expressing a different worldview.

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