:: BE BACKWARD IN COMING FORWARD! #avantgarde
(excerpts)
Enough of half penny truths!
Old trash from your hearts erase!
Streets for paint-brushes we'll use,
our palettes - squares with their wide open
space.
-Mayakovsky, 1918
“Order to the Army of Arts”
While we dawdle and quarrel
In search of fundamental answers
All things yell:
“Give us new forms!”
There are no fools today
to crowd open-mouthed round a maestro
and await his pronouncement.
Comrades
give us a new form of art -
an art
that will pull the republic out of the mud!
-Mayakovsky, 1921
“Order No.2 to the Army of the Arts”
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