Popov, E. A. New Reality of the Russian Avant-Garde in Arts

Abstract: Traditional attempts to defi ne the Russian Avant-Garde of early 20th century through classifying it as a particular movement in arts cannot fully reveal the nature of this phenomenon. The author of this article proves the need in another approach to defi ning the borders of the Russian Avant-Garde based on the assumption that turning away from strictly artistic approaches to the analysis of Avant- Garde and addressing to Avant-Garde discourse from the position of overall cultural development would allow to describe peculiarities of the phenomenon. The author suggests to complete a traditional position conceptualizing the Russian Avant-Garde as an opposition to classical tradition in art and culture with a new approach allowing to look at the Avant-Garde as a new reality – a system of values, world outlook, defl ection of the epoch values and standards into an absolute of a new human, new world and new culture.

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