Russian Poetic Neo-avant-garde of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century: On Issue of the Term’s Use Boundaries

The article is devoted to the neo-avant-garde literary trend that emerged in the Soviet underground of the 2nd half of the 20th century. The paper states that the use of the term “neo-avant-garde” with respect to post-war avant-garde has already become conventional in European art and art studies, h...

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Main Author: Mikhail G. Pavlovets
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Language:English
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature 2023-06-01
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Online Access:https://studlit.ru/images/2023-8-2/01_Pavlovets_10-31.pdf
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description The article is devoted to the neo-avant-garde literary trend that emerged in the Soviet underground of the 2nd half of the 20th century. The paper states that the use of the term “neo-avant-garde” with respect to post-war avant-garde has already become conventional in European art and art studies, however it has not yet established in the Russian scientific vocabulary. Moreover, in the field of literary study a significant amount of research material has been collected, which allows us to indicate the existence of Russian poetic neo-avant-garde in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Its authors primarily were either localized within the uncensored literary underground, or abroad as emigres. The article concludes that the Russian neo-avant-garde differed from historical avant-garde (1900–1930s) in the same ways Western neo-avant-garde did: it rejected the socio-political utopianism in favor of an aesthetical utopia that implied the avoidance of any ideology with a virtually escapist concentration on solving solely art tasks. In addition, neo-avant-garde was interested in the issues of revival, continuation and completion of traditions of historical avant-garde, which in its own times manifested declaratively the breakup with every single tradition. Neo-avantgardists mainly inherited the most radical searches of historical avant-garde authors, who often converged their poetry with the boundaries of art as a whole or with zones of visual, acoustic, performative or other art that adjoin verbal poetry.
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spelling doaj-art-ffb638b4fbc14958a73b0311105610d92025-08-20T03:06:13ZengRussian Academy of Sciences, A.M. Gorky Institute of World LiteratureStudia Litterarum2500-42472541-85642023-06-0182103110.22455/2500-4247-2023-8-2-10-31Russian Poetic Neo-avant-garde of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century: On Issue of the Term’s Use BoundariesMikhail G. Pavlovets0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7246-1787National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, RussiaThe article is devoted to the neo-avant-garde literary trend that emerged in the Soviet underground of the 2nd half of the 20th century. The paper states that the use of the term “neo-avant-garde” with respect to post-war avant-garde has already become conventional in European art and art studies, however it has not yet established in the Russian scientific vocabulary. Moreover, in the field of literary study a significant amount of research material has been collected, which allows us to indicate the existence of Russian poetic neo-avant-garde in the 2nd half of the 20th century. Its authors primarily were either localized within the uncensored literary underground, or abroad as emigres. The article concludes that the Russian neo-avant-garde differed from historical avant-garde (1900–1930s) in the same ways Western neo-avant-garde did: it rejected the socio-political utopianism in favor of an aesthetical utopia that implied the avoidance of any ideology with a virtually escapist concentration on solving solely art tasks. In addition, neo-avant-garde was interested in the issues of revival, continuation and completion of traditions of historical avant-garde, which in its own times manifested declaratively the breakup with every single tradition. Neo-avantgardists mainly inherited the most radical searches of historical avant-garde authors, who often converged their poetry with the boundaries of art as a whole or with zones of visual, acoustic, performative or other art that adjoin verbal poetry.https://studlit.ru/images/2023-8-2/01_Pavlovets_10-31.pdfundergroundhistorical avant-gardeneo-avant-gardeneofuturismuncensored literaturepoetryfuturismart experiment
spellingShingle Mikhail G. Pavlovets
Russian Poetic Neo-avant-garde of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century: On Issue of the Term’s Use Boundaries
Studia Litterarum
underground
historical avant-garde
neo-avant-garde
neofuturism
uncensored literature
poetry
futurism
art experiment
title Russian Poetic Neo-avant-garde of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century: On Issue of the Term’s Use Boundaries
title_full Russian Poetic Neo-avant-garde of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century: On Issue of the Term’s Use Boundaries
title_fullStr Russian Poetic Neo-avant-garde of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century: On Issue of the Term’s Use Boundaries
title_full_unstemmed Russian Poetic Neo-avant-garde of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century: On Issue of the Term’s Use Boundaries
title_short Russian Poetic Neo-avant-garde of the 2nd Half of the 20th Century: On Issue of the Term’s Use Boundaries
title_sort russian poetic neo avant garde of the 2nd half of the 20th century on issue of the term s use boundaries
topic underground
historical avant-garde
neo-avant-garde
neofuturism
uncensored literature
poetry
futurism
art experiment
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