Word: futurist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...revival of the famous arts and crafts factories of pre-war Russia is apparently contemplated by the Soviet Government. Futurist and cubist ornamentation will be encouraged, perhaps as part of the general drive against "bourgeois civilization...
...peculiar innovation in this age of radical reform. The Fabians and their kin are busy penning their scholarly dissertations; and more humble intelligensia, essays for handbill and pamphlet. The artist folk, in timely appeal to the aesthetic boobery, sanctions and cherishes Armfield's "synthetic drama" and the futurist antics of Marinetti. The reader of the newspapers learns with astonishment that the aeroplane has been successfully adopted by criminals for purpose of escape, and that Trotzky is producing a series of communistic plays which he is forcing the hapless Russians to attend...