ABSTRACT
This chapter explores selected theoretical notions discussed in various publications from the analysed avant-garde magazines and other publications of Polish, Dutch and Belgian provenance regarding visual arts, architecture and literature. The concept of avant-garde art as a changing factor for society was a shared approach of many artists who rejected the social or political engagement of art out of principle, but yet they did not exclude its influence on society. The shared spirit of modernisation and renewal of art and society was expressed in a plethora of programmatic writings of avant-garde theoreticians, artists and architects. The theory of Neoplasticism rejected any social factors in art. The chapter describes selected features of interwar manifestos and programmatic writings of Polish, Dutch and Belgian provenance, as an example of a wider European phenomenon of the historical avant-garde.
