The Avant-garde: a Contemporary History
Andrzej Szczerski
andrzej.szczerski@uj.edu.plInstitute of Art History, Jagiellonian University (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3594-0070
Abstract
The avant-garde is one of the best researched phenomena in Polish art history. This research results in an ongoing verification of the hitherto dominant theses, formulated at the beginning of the 1970s, concerning the scope of the concept of the avant-garde, the link between the radicalism of its artistic experimentation and the slogans of social revolution, or the avant-garde’s one-sided political entanglements. The conceptual scope is broadened to include the participation of avant-garde artists in pro-state activities in the Second Republic of Poland and their interest in the issues of memory and history, as well as in the utopias of the regeneration and causality of art. These new approaches are exemplified by the multifaceted celebrations of the “Year of the Avant-garde” (2017). Consequently, the avant-garde has become not a contestation, but an essential part of the Polish cultural code, and its history is inscribed in the contemporary debate on the models of modernity developed by Polish culture in the 20th century.
Keywords:
avant-garde, Year of the Avant-garde, Formists, regeneration myth, national style, modernityReferences
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Andrzej Szczerskiandrzej.szczerski@uj.edu.pl
Institute of Art History, Jagiellonian University Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3594-0070
Prof. Andrzej Szczerski PhD (habil.) is the head of the Department of Modern Art History at the Institute of Art History of the Jagiellonian University, director of the National Museum in Cracow, member of the Art History Commission at the Polish Academy of Learning and of the Association of Art Historians. He is the author of publications and curator of exhibitions on the subject of art, design and architecture of the 19th and 20th century and contemporary art, the initiator and co-author of a series of exhibitions “4 × nowoczesność” at the National Museum in Cracow (2021–2024).
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