Popov, E. A. Modernism and Russian Avant-Garde: Correlation of Category Systems

Abstract: The author offers a summary of scientifi c experie n ce in correlating complex category systems of modernism and Rus sian avant-garde of the 20th century. A new vision of the author allows to view modernism as a general cultural phenomenon crea ted by the Western civilization and being spread everywhere while avantgarde is described as a mainly Russian creation. Actualization of the latter played an important role for Russian art and culture because it formed a culturally centered epoch called the Silver Age.

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