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

Contents

List of Illustrations ix Introduction From Voicelessness to Voice 3 Part I. Infantile Primitivism Chapter One Infant Art: Mikhail Larionov, Children’s Drawings, and Neo-Primitivist Art 19 Chapter Two Infant Word: Aleksei Kruchenykh, Children’s Language, and Cubo-Futurist Poetics 62 Part II. Infantilist Aesthetics Chapter Three Infant Eye: Viktor Shklovsky, the Naive Perspective, and Formalist Theory 105 Chapter Four Infant Mind: Daniil Kharms, Childish Alogism, and OBERIU Literature of the Absurd 156 Conclusion The End Point of the Infantilist Aesthetic 208 Notes 217 Bibliography 273 Index 297 Contents ...