The Slovene historical avant-garde and Europe in crisis

• Authors: Tomaž Toporišič
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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

EN

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

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts
• Journal: Theatralia: Revue současného myšlení o divadelní kultuře (Theatralia: The revue of contemporary thought on theatre culture)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 25
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 65-86
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Tomaž Toporišič

• Theatralia, redakce, Masarykova univerzita, Filozofická fakulta, Katedra divadelních studií, Arna Nováka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic