出版社：Singidunum University. Faculty of Media and Communications
摘要：The main theme of the book Aesthetic Revolutions and the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements edited by Aleš Erjavec is the reconsideration of art practices and movements that tended to transform the world instead of just representing it even through new forms, styles and techniques. As Aleš Erjavec writes in the introduction “central premise […] will be that throughout the twentieth century there exists a segment of avant-garde art that is sufficiently specific to warrant a determinate designation, namely that of the ‘aesthetic’ avant-garde art” (p. 2). Erjavec defines “aesthetic” not as merely “artistic” but as “its complement, extending from specifically artistic experiences to the broad, holistic domain of lived and imagined experiences, including social, political, bodily, and technological dimensions” (p. 2). And furthermore, “aesthetic” in the avant-garde artistic movements relates to “transformation of a community – whether a nation, a class, or some other social entity” (p. 2). Given this definition of the “aesthetic”, Erjavec claims that not all avant-garde movements are “aesthetic avant-gardes” as he calls them, that is, he claims that not all avant-garde movements are revolutionary in the sense that they aim to transform the world instead of just representing it through novel forms. In accordance with this stance, Erjavec classifies avant-gardes as: artistic avant-gardes (“these are avant-gardes that introduce into art new styles and techniques… They engender new representations of the lived world, thereby occasionally causing an artistic revolution” /p. 2/), aesthetic avant-gardes (“[they] seek to effect aesthetic revolutions, that is, to substantially affect and transform our ways of experiencing and sensing the world, to change in important ways the manner in which we perceive and experience reality” /p. 3/), postsocialist avant-gardes (“movements from present or former socialist countries whose art possessed features to other avant-garde art of the twentieth century… A part of them once again consisted of ‘aesthetic avant-gardes’ /p. 3/).
