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...Born into a poor working-class Moscow family and trained as an artist in St. Petersburg, Filonov was part of the singular explosion of avant-garde art that blossomed in early 20th century Russia from the likes of Abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky, Supremacist Kasimir Malevich, Surrealist Marc Chagall and Constructivist Vladimir Tatlin. But Filonov never stayed with any school except his own, which he called "analytical art." It was in the eulogy to Filonov offered by the poet Alexei Kruchenykh, Futurism's major theoretician, that the exhibition's curators found their title, Witness of the Unseen...
Harvard--which hadn't even played outside much--withered a bit against the top-level competition. As Kasimir delicately put it, "the team hadn't quite gelled...
...very next weekend, the team went to Princeton for an Ivy League tournament but shockingly, only six players showed up. Seven are needed for a game, and Harvard was essentially forced to play shorthanded for most of the weekend. An angry Norcott and Kasimir called a team meeting in the middle of last week to voice their frustrations and call for renewed commitment...
...team came together a little more, but we had a tough loss to Tufts in the first round, and after that I knew that we weren't going to advance," Kasimir says...
Maybe then, when Norcott and Kasimir will be seniors, Harvard can return to its recently lost position of prominence...