THE FUTURIST FILES

Glisic writes in a clear and highly readable style and does an admirable job of bringing together a huge number of primary and seco ndary sources. The scholarship is sound and the content is well organized. Margaret Samu, coeditor of From Realism to the Silver A ge: New Studies in Russian Artistic CultureFuturism was Russias first avant-garde movement. Gatecrashing the Russian public sphere in the early twentieth century, the movement called for the destruction of everything old, so that the past could not hinder the cre ation of a ne...[Llegir més]