Talk:Russian Futurism

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Can someone please fix up the reference. iThink4u

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I'm not sure why a Lissitzky painting is included in an article about a (mainly) literary movement, especially when he isn't otherwise mentioned in the article itself. I understand Lissitzky to be representative of Constructivism (art) which, until now, I thought was synonymous with "Russian Futurism". I didn't know about the literary movement, but might have assumed it to also be part of Constructivism. I've also left related comments at Talk:Futurism (art) (my impression is that the Russian and Italian movements had little, if any, direct and/or ongoing involvement with eachother). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 03:57, 10 January 2007 (UTC)


It's a poster he designed for a production of the opera "Victory over the Sun." This work was seen as a culmination of Russian Futurism as a movement and was a collaboration between Mikhail Matyushin (the composer), Aleksei Kruchenykh (the librettist), Velimir Khlebnikov (who wrote the prologue), and Kazimir Malevich (the set-designer). This is stated in the poster's caption and in the article. In response to your other comments, Russian Futurism was mainly a literary movement, but was closely related to Constructivism, Cubo-Futurism, and OBERIU, among other movements of the early twentieth century. -- kmblacksquare