Your turn #8

Marinetti's Parolibero, 1915

Dear class, we covered lots of early Twentieth Century themes: Cubism (analytic and synthetic), Collage, Plakatstil, 1920s America,  Great War in posters, Paul Klee, DADA, Fehmy Agha, Juan Gris, Designing Modernity, Cubofuturism (Malevich), Neoplasticism, Depero's dynamo... (remember, no echo chamber)

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Russian Futurism

SLAP IN THE FACE OF PUBLIC TASTE

To the readers of our New First Unexpected. We alone are the face of our Time. Through us, the horn of time blows in the art of the word. The past is too tight. The Academy and Pushkin are less intelligible than hieroglyphics. Throw Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, etc. overboard from the Ship of Modernity. He who does not forget his first love will not recognize his last. Who, trustingly, would turn his last love toward Balmont's perfumed lechery? Is this the reflection of today's virile soul? Who, faintheartedly, would fear tearing from warrior Bryusov's black tuxedo the paper armorplate? Or does the dawn of unknown beauties shine from it? Wash your hands that have touched the filthy slime of the books written by those countless Leonid Andreyevs. All those Maxim Gorkys, Kuprins, Bloks, Sologubs, Remizovs, Averchenkos, Chomys, Kuzmins, Bunins, etc., need only a dacha on the river. Such is the reward fate gives tailors.  Believe it or not, Russian Futurism is more "avant-garde" than its Italian counterpart. 

Check this flicker selection of Russian avant-garde book covers.