Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde

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297 Index Page numbers in boldface refer to illustrations. absurdism, 10, 11, 145, 159–60, 167. See also Kharms, Daniil; OBERIU Acmeism, 12, 260n57 adolescence, 105 Aesopian language, 145–46, 153, 159, 195, 257n15 Agamben, Girogio, 3, 4 Aksakov, Sergei, 131, 220n29 alogism, 156, 161, 165, 166–68, 187, 205, 208, 209, 256n4 Ames, Louise B., 256n10 Andersen, Hans Christian, 131, 259n40 Andreenko, Mikhail, 58 Anemone, Anthony, 258n33 Ariès, Philippe, 5, 13, 220n28, 227n78 Aristotle, 252n182 Augustine, 3, 4, 105 avant-garde movement, 6–7, 15–16, 19, 20– 21, 56, 67, 107, 117, 128, 131–34, 144, 153–55, 161, 165, 205–7, 208, 210–11, 213–14, 269n3; children’s magazines and, 190–92, 196–97, 204; originality and, 15–16. See also censorship and repression of Russian avant-garde babbling. See under infancy Bakharev, P., 88 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 28, 138 barbarism, 28–30 Barrie, J. M., 148, 154 Baudelaire, Charles, 14, 109, 221n37 Baudouin de Courtenay, Jan, 67, 111–13, 124, 244n36 Baudrillard, Jean, 119–20 Bely, Andrei, 156, 219n23, 245n45, 251n182; Kotik Letaev, 12–13, 136–44, 180, 251n182, 253n198 Benčić, Živa, 231n16 Benois, Alexandre, 26, 60, 226n53 Berenstam, F., 60 Bergson, Henri, 156, 157–58, 169–70, 174, 179, 243n15 Blaue Reiter, Der, 33, 76 Blok, Aleksandr, 139–40 Bowlt, John, 86 Brancusi, Constantin, 16 Buber, Martin, 138 Budetliane. See Futurism Bunin, Ivan, 13 Burliuk, David, 43, 76, 99 Caillois, Roger, 6–7, 217n12 Carroll, Lewis, 64, 148, 167, 203, 218n19, 221n38, 260n58, 270n20; Kharms and, 198, 199–200, 205, 260n58, 267n214, 269n231 censorship and repression of Russian avantgarde , 117, 145–46, 154, 159, 160, 161, 164–65, 170, 197, 206, 211 Cervantes, Miguel de, 136, 137, 144, 147, 251n170 Chaadaev, Petr, 27, 176–77 Chebotarevskaia, Anastasiia, 232n30 childhood, 5–6, 11–16, 22, 30, 120, 178, 220n28, 221n35; Catherine II’s stages of, 105, 243n6; cult of, 161–62, 163–64; Piaget’s stages of, 167. See also infancy; infant/child construct Index 298 children’s art, 8–9, 9, 19, 21, 22–23, 25–26, 29–35, 36, 37, 41–46, 49–51, 56, 58, 60, 74, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 128, 192, 193 children’s language and writing, 73–74, 75–76, 78–79, 80, 81, 82, 89, 92–93, 94, 96, 112–13, 131, 134–35, 192, 236n70, 238n102, 244n34, 249n134; anthologies, 83–91, 263n111; lore, 92, 125–26, 135, 156, 158, 160, 163, 179, 181–82, 184, 187–88, 191–92, 195; songs and rhymes, 126, 160, 183–84, 187, 192; violence in, 158, 256n10. See also infancy children’s literature, 12, 133, 145–54, 160–61, 163, 168, 189–97, 197–207, 249n134, 254n228, 257n17, 258n39; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 8, 64, 141, 148, 160, 198, 200, 203, 216n19; children’s magazines, 145, 153, 189–97; “dual address,” 159, 218n19, 257n17. See also Carroll, Lewis Children’s Protest (Komarov), 11, 12 Chukovskaya, Lydia, 191–92, 268n217 Chukovsky, Kornei, 48, 67, 76, 81, 93, 99, 124, 126, 135, 190, 192, 236nn69–70, 248n99, 262n100 Civil War, 147–48 Clark, Eve, 123–24, 229n96, 232n20, 248n97 colonialism, postcolonialism, 23–24, 30, 68 Coveney, Peter, 14–15, 221n35 crocodile in Russian literature, 176, 262n100 Cubism, 8, 32, 35, 37, 76 Cubo-Futurism, 9, 33, 41, 57, 60, 61, 65, 68, 72, 94–95, 115, 208 Dadaism, 13, 21, 220n31, 240n133 Darwin, Charles, 14, 221n38 defamiliarization, 10, 108, 129–32, 144, 145, 150. See also strangeness Degen, Iu., 89 Delvig, Anton, 76 Derzhavin, Gavrila, 105 Donkey’s Tail group, 30, 245n37 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 68, 161, 166, 200, 225n34, 262n100 Druskin, Iakov, 163, 259n40 Durnova, Marina, 259n40 Dusinberre, Juliet, 218n19, 270n20 Eikhenbaum, Boris, 126 Eliot, Lise, 54 Emerson, Caryl, 28, 138, 225n42 enfant terrible figure, 15, 63, 69, 70, 94–95, 99, 100, 232n30 Erikson, Erik, 169, 259n44 Erlikh, Mariana, 88, 89, 90, 203, 239n112 Esslin, Martin, 159–60, 161 etymology, 5, 28, 105, 107, 116, 120–22, 135, 225n40, 232n22, 242–43nn1–5, 263n116 Fabian, Johannes, 20, 23 fairy tales, 188 Fauvism, 32 Feininger, Lionel, 33 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 143 film, evolution of, 97–98 Filonov, Pavel, 228n79 Filosofov, Dmitry, 114 Fineberg, Jonathan, 34, 42–43, 48 Fink, Hilary, 256n8 Fleishman, Lazar, 258n30 Florensky, Pavel, 109 folk art and lore, 31, 41, 122–23 Fonvizin, Denis, 225n34 Formalism, 8, 9, 10, 46, 51, 68, 106, 111, 113, 115, 117–18, 126, 129, 132–33, 153–54, 166, 208 Frank, Joseph, 20 Freud, Sigmund, 14–15, 66, 114, 156, 157...