Tradition
Russian Futurism
Overview
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 ended shortly after the Russian Revolution of 1917, after which former Russian Futurists either left the country, or participated in the new art movements.
Notable Russian Futurists included Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, David Burliuk, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Velimir Khlebnikov.
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Then came the Russian Revolution in all its stages. Cars dashed by full of armed men, red flags appeared everywhere, the people stormed the citadel and hauled down the effigy of the Tsar.
Bertrand Russell, The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
Close in meaning to Russian Futurism; the term itself is not named.
This amounts to saying that physics is but logic spoiled. In this proposition the whole philosophy of Ideas is summarized. And in it also is the hidden principle of the philosophy that is innate in our understanding. If immutability is more than becoming, form is more than change, and it is by a veritable fall that the logical system of Ideas, rationally subordinated and coördinated among themselves, is scattered…
Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution
States what Russian Futurism is.
Painting and sculpture, origin of, 20. Paleontology neither proves nor disproves development, 367, 376. Picturesque, meaning of, 433. Planetoids, origin of 289. Plato's model republic, central idea of, 388. Previsions and ordinary knowledge, 117; previsions known as science, 118; common and scientific, 123; when quantitative arose, 158; increase in precision, 171. Primary divisions of a germ and of a society…
Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress
Close in meaning to Russian Futurism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Russian Futurism
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- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Moscow
- Futurism
- Anatoly Lunacharsky
- United States
- World War I
- Bolsheviks
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Europe
- Mikhail Matyushin
Place in the tradition
Part of Modernism.