Krakow avant-garde

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The Krakow avant-garde (Polish Awangarda I or Awangarda Krakowska ) was a literary group that was formed in the years 1922–1927 around the Krakow magazine "Zwrotnica" (Eng. The Weiche ). The group was headed by Tadeusz Peiper , its main theorist and author of the program.

The baseline was to create an opposition to patterns in the aftermath of Romanticism and Young Poland . One of the most salient effects of avant-garde movements of the twentieth century was the pursuit of including new visions in poetry in a clear program. The poets of the avant-garde looked for a theoretical foundation for their work. They started from the assumption that the creative process was not a random act, but an expression of certain views that had to be presented in a clearly formulated basis. This is how many artistic manifestos understood each other at the beginning of the 20th century , in which their creators presented their new vision of poetry. Almost every avant-garde movement felt obliged to publish a manifesto. This principle was not alien to the Polish avant-garde either. The Krakow avant-garde adopted the manifesto “City. Dimensions. Machine ”(Polish. Miasto. Masa. Maszyna ), in which the requirements of a new poetry were described. However, among the innovators of the Polish artistic movements, they were the only ones who worked out their poetic system in detail. Slogan : “Najmniej słów” - “Least words” .

Representative

Main requirements

  • The so-called cult “3 x M” ( “Miasto, Masa, Maszyna” ) - a cult of contemporary civilization
  • The artist as the architect-builder of the sentences
  • Presentation of a work in balance of feelings
  • Metaphor as a means of expressing and creating new poetic reality
  • Bringing the rhythm of lyric poetry closer to that of prose
  • Use of brief thoughts and condensed (accumulated) imagery
  • Economy of poetic language
  • Claiming the present
  • Cult of novelty
  • Emotional control (anti-sentimentalism)
  • Precise construction of the poems , brevity