Essay: The Renaissance versus the Avant-Garde

• Authors: Maxim Kantor
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The essay contrasts two recurring phenomena of European culture: renaissance and avant-garde. The author discusses the paradigmatic Renaissance of 15th and 16th centuries and the paradigmatic Avant-Garde of early 20th century from the point of view of a practicing artist, interested in philosophical, social, religious, and political involvements of artists and their creation. The author shows the artistic and social history of 20th century as a struggle between the Avant-Garde and the Renaissance ideals, which, as he points out, found a fertile ground in in the 20 years that followed immediately the Second World War.

Keywords

EN

20th century art theory; 20th century Christian social thought; avant-garde; existentialism; fine art; post-war humanist renaissance; renaissance

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 139–168

Dates

delivered

2014-02-21

accepted

2014-03-17

Contributors

author

Maxim Kantor

Identifiers

DOI

10.5840/forphil201318210

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