This article examines the fate of innovative artistic ideas and aesthetical projects of the 1920s. It studies experience of avant-garde artists in their theoretical search for harmony of being, spirit, sense and creativeness. Two radically new aesthetical concepts could serve this goal: metaphysical and practical. Their similarity and ideal-methodological difference are reviewed, the reason behind the latter is interpreting “life”, both in cosmic and social worlds. Metaphysical subjectless aesthetics followed a path of creative transformation of human being through the development of a new conscience. Practical aesthetics implied an active inclusion of human being into practice-functional interaction with new ways of material form-creation. The article uncovers characteristics of utopianism in the idea of art having a decisive role in achieving the ideal perfection of the world and human, interpreting “perfection” as the highest stage of internal integration of human being and achieving wholeness of humanity.
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)177-185
JournalИЗВЕСТИЯ УРАЛЬСКОГО ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОГО УНИВЕРСИТЕТА. СЕРИЯ 3: ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫЕ НАУКИ
Volume14
Issue number2 (188)
StatePublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • aesthetics, art, avant-guard, beauty, constructivism, creativity, form, GROJS, Kandinsky, life, Malevich, perfection, авангард, Гройс, жизнь, искусство, Кандинский, конструктивизм, красота, Малевич, совершенство, творчество, форма, эстетика

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