Russian Futurism

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Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Filippo Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism", which espoused the rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth, industry, destruction of academies, museums, and urbanism; it also advocated for modernization and cultural rejuvenation. Russian Futurism began roughly in the early 1910s; in 1912, a year after Ego-Futurism began, the literary group "Hylea"—also spelt "Guilée" and "Gylea"—issued the book and the manifesto A Slap in the Face of Public Taste. The book included texts and poems of David Burliuk, Nikolai Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Wassily Kandinsky, Benedikt Livshits, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov and was issued with a support of George Kuzmin and Sergey Dolinsky as well as the futuristic manifesto. The 1912 movement was originally called Cubo-Futurism, but this term is now used to refer to the style of art produced. Russian Futurism...

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