Авангард. Искусство ХХ века APK

Word of French origin vanguard originally referred exclusively to military terminology and meant detachment retractable forward by the movement of troops; the vanguard. During the French Revolution, this word has become a metaphor for the revolutionary and in 1794 was included in the name of Jacobin magazine. Since then, the political meaning began to displace the military.


Henri Saint-Simon
The term in its figurative value used by French Socialist utopists. In their own work, the term for the first time I received the following artistic sense - the founder of the school of utopian socialist Henri Saint-Simon, in his article "The artist, a scientist and work", published in the year of his death in 1825, the Union of Artists, scientists and workers in the leading role averted artist . The artist, in Saint-Simon, endowed with imagination and should take advantage of the power of art to promote progressive ideas: "It is we, the artists, will serve you the vanguard"