title: The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and the Theory of Modernism
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metadata.value: Rykov, Anatoly
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metadata.value: 2022-05-05T15:18:11Z
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metadata.value: 2022-05-05T15:18:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-03
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metadata.value: Rykov, Anatoly. “The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and the Theory of Modernism”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Arts 12, no. 1 (2022): 147–163.
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metadata.value: https://doi/org/10.21638/spbu15.2022.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36266
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metadata.value: This paper considers issues of convergence of classical and modernist art theories on the example
  of the so-called Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The works of the main participants in this debate, Charles Perrault
  and Nicolas Boileau, are examined in the context of the theory of modernism and questions
  of the origin of modernist art. The aggravation of the contradictions between the two versions
  of the theory of classicism and, more broadly, the two concepts of modernity, led to
  the formation of new views on the nature of art in the era of late Louis XIV. The leader of the
  “Moderns,” Charles Perrault, became the founder of the rationalistic and scientistic theories of
  modernism, gravitating towards aestheticism, formalism, and semiotics of art. In this article,
  his theories are explored in connection with the modernist formalist discourse and theoretical
  work of Clement Greenberg. In addition, Charles Perrault’s theory of art is placed in the space
  of the theory of “aesthetic modernism” (aesthetic movement) and the theory of “art for art’s
  sake.” Particular attention is paid to the comparative characteristics of the texts of Charles Perrault,
  Oscar Wilde, and Julius Meier-Graefe. In turn, the works of the chief theoretician of the
  “ancients,” Nicolas Boileau, are studied in the context of ideas of the “conservative revolution.”
  From this perspective, the interpretation of the category of the sublime by Pseudo-Longinus,
  Boileau, and representatives of romantic culture is assessed. The author concludes that Nicola
  Boileau and Charles Perrault represent different equal branches of modernist discourse. At
  the same time, Charles Perrault managed not only to anticipate certain phenomena of the
  culture of modernism in his texts, but also to take important steps towards the contemporary
  scientific theory of art.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Arts;Volume 12; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: art theory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modernism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Charles Perrault
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nicolas Boileau
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Clement Greenberg
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Oscar Wilde
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: conservative revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns and the Theory of Modernism
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