The Russian Avant-Garde Book

The Russian Avant-Garde Book (MoMa Presentation in flash) MoMa.org: "The Russian Futurists encompassed a number of avant-garde groups of artists and poets working in St. Petersburg and Moscow during the 1910s and early 1920s. Rejecting the conventions of the academy and bourgeois taste, painters experimented with new visual languages of abstraction, including Cubo-Futurism and Rayism, while also turning to vernacular and non-Western sources in Neo-primitivism. Poets explored the nonconnotative value of words, as seen in Aleksei Kruchenykh’s experiments with transrational language that lead to the first example of zaum poetry in 1913." (via Swen's Weblog)