Monthly Archives: December 2010
Conversations at the End of the Avant Garde
In 1928, a group of artists, poets, and provocateurs in Leningrad founds “Oberiu,” a nonsensical-sounding acronym for “The Association of Real Art.” Says patron Kazimir Malevich: “You are young troublemakers and I am an old one. Let’s see what we can do.” They shock and mesmerize the city with their outlandish performances and stunts. By […]
Writers: Alexander Vvedensky, Daniil Kharms, Eugene Ostashevsky, Leonid Lipavsky, Nikolai Zabolotsky