Aleksei Kruchenykh

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Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh; Kruchonykh; Kruchyonykh (Алексе́й Елисе́евич Кручёных). Born 1886. , a well-known poet of the Russian "Silver Age", was perhaps the most radical poet of Russian Futurism, a movement that included Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk and others. Together with Velimir Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh is considered the inventor of zaum. Kruchenykh wrote the libretto for the Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun, with sets provided by Kazimir Malevich. He married Olga Rozanova, an avant-garde artist, in 1912. Died 1968.

Literature

By Kruchenykh
On Kruchenykh
  • Craig Dworkin, "To Destroy Language", Textual Practice 18(2), 2004, pp 185-197.
  • Vladimir Markov, Russian Futurism: A History, University of California Press, 1968.

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