Avant-Gardist Practices and the Problem of Engagé Art in Socialism

Močnik, Rastko (author)

Historical avant-gardes carried out their program to break out of the closure of bourgeois art by connecting with movements that sought radical social change. In the Yugoslav context, this problem gave rise to the "conflict on the literary left," in the Slovenian context it was solved by the social literature of the 1930s. Partisan art reworked this solution and produced a new art formation. After the socialist revolution, the "critical generation" posed and was solving these problems anew.

• Language: English
• Keywords: avant-garde, conflict on the literary left, Partisan art, critical generation
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.16 - Independent Scientific Component Part or a Chapter in a Monograph
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 151-158
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179959
• UDC: 821.163.09:7.036/.037
• DOI: 10.4312/Obdobja.42.151-158
• COBISS.SI-ID: 179054851
• Publication date in RUL: 27.02.2026

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Slovenska literatura in umetnost v družbenih kontekstih
• Editors: Andraž Jež
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: Založba Univerze
• Year: 2023
• ISBN: 978-961-297-200-4
• COBISS.SI-ID: 170574083
• Collection title: Zbirka Obdobja
• Collection numbering: 42
• Collection ISSN: 1408-211X

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian

Abstract

Zgodovinske avantgarde so program, da odpravijo zaporo buržoazne umetnosti, udejanjile tako, da so se povezale z gibanji, ki so hotela radikalno spremeniti družbo. V jugoslovanskem kontekstu so ta problem reševali v "spopadu na književni levici", v slovenskem ga je rešila socialna književnost tridesetih let. Partizanska umetnost je predelala to rešitev in proizvedla novo umetnostno formacijo. Po socialistični revoluciji je »kritična generacija« na novo postavila in reševala te probleme.

• Keywords: avantgarda, spopad na književni levici, partizanska umetnost, kritična generacija