The Slovene historical avant-garde and Europe in crisis

Tomaž Toporišič

doi:10.5817/TY2022-1-5

The Slovene historical avant-garde and Europe in crisis

Vol.25,No.1(2022)

Tomaž Toporišič

https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2022-1-5

Stable URL (handle):
http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/145139

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Abstract

The article explores artistic initiatives giving shape to the multiple relations between the (theatre) avantgarde and the post-war crisis of identity in Slovene and Central European art and culture. It closely examines manifestative thoughts on Europe in crisis by Srečko Kosovel, the leading Slovene avant-garde poet, and Ljubomir Micić, the leader of the Serbian avant-garde movement Zenitism; Ferdo Delak and August Černigoj's manifestos of New Slovene Stage; and the concept of an expressionist play by Slavko Grum. The aim of the study is to show how the aesthetic revolutions of the historical avant-gardes of the region from the Adriatic Sea to the Western Balkan, were the artistic and human responses of the avant-garde artists to the newly developed crisis in Europe after 1918.

Keywords:
Central-European avant-gardes; Srečko Kosovel; Ljubomir Micić; August Černigoj; Ferdo Delak; Slavko Grum; Europe in crisis

Pages:
65–86

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