[5] September 30 - We alone are the face of our time
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
A. Kruchenykh, "Declaration of the word as such" (1913).
V. Mayakovsky, "A drop of tar" (1915), both in Words in Revolution: Russian Futurist Manifestoes (2004).
Kazimir Malevich, "From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism: The new painterly realism" (1915), in John Bowlt, ed., Russian Art of the Avant Garde: Theory and Criticism, 116-135.
Lev Ornstein, "Suicide in an Airplane"
Marjorie Perloff, "The Great War and the European avant-garde," Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the First World War (2006).
Further resources:
A. Koptiaev, "At the futurists' 'opera'" (1913), from Bartlett and Dadswell, Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera (2012).
Roman Jakobson, "Futurism" (1919), in Language in Literature, K. Pomorska and S. Rudy, eds. (1987), 28–33.
Image: Bohumil Kubišta, "Heavy artillery in action" (1913)