Avant-garde arts In sociological perspective: Renato pogiolli and Boris Groys

The paper deals with the possibilities of perceiving avant-garde arts on the example of prominent authors: Renato Poggioli in the book The Theory of the Avant-garde, and Boris Groys in the book In the Flow. Both of these works, through which the sociological perspective of avant-garde arts is presented, are separated by a historical gap of over fifty years. Poggioli focuses on defining the basic socio-cultural features of avant-garde arts, mostly studying it as a relatively isolated social phenomenon. He demands that avant-garde arts should be studied as a sociological and psychological fact. Groys views avant-garde, and all contemporary art, as a product of global socio-economic and cultural-historical assemblies. He starts from the idea of material flow as an all-pervading force that affects all actors of social and cultural life. Sociological insight is necessary for the complete study of avant-garde. He states that it was the avant-garde artists who expressed an awareness of the inevitability of the flow. The aim of research is to provide the possibility of sociological consideration of avant-garde art, as a way of understanding characteristics of the culture of modern society.