The scientific and practical conference "Avant-garde in Russia as a new aesthetic Model", was organized by the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, the School of Arts and Humanities of the Far Eastern Federal University, and held in Vladivostok on March 26-27, 2024.

The university teachers, post-graduate students and students from some universities in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Barnaul and Vladivostok, as well as leading researchers and experts from the St. Petersburg Russian Museum participated the event. The interest shown in the conference revealed that at present the general theme of the event and the designated areas of discussion are relevant in a new and different way. The aim of the conference was to consider the values developed in Russian culture at the turn of the XIX – XX centuries as an integral phenomenon, expressed in the formation of aesthetic forms, based on philosophical, historical, literary, scientific facts, as well as the facts of social and everyday life. The work of the conference was based on discussing the issues affecting the peculiarities of the avant-garde formation and development, because along with the continuity of ideas and aesthetic reflection taking place in the culture of Russia in the middle of the XIX century and contributing to the impulse to form the image of the art of the future, as well as the influence of the trends of futurism, cubism, etc., developed in Western Europe, avant-gardists were rethought the integral foundations of art, and specific programs of the art of the future were created, in which their own manifestations and discoveries were explicated. In the course of the two-day discussion, the conference participants noted that the aesthetic forms, strategies and practices created by the avant-garde as a response to the crisis of the XIX-XX centuries turn we inherited, have not been fully mastered. Hence, interest in the avant-garde, primarily as an ideological trend in the context of the “man and his place in the world” issue, becomes particularly acute.

Autor: Natalia Yu. Malkova
PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy, FEFU Member of the Russian Philosophical Society.