Aleksei Kruchenykh

Infobox Artist
name = Aleksei Kruchenykh


imagesize = 200px
caption = Kruchenykh, Moscow 1913
birthname = Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh
birthdate = birth date|1886|2|9|mf=y
location = Olevka, Kherson province, Ukraine
deathdate = death date and age|1968|6|17|1886|2|9|mf=y
deathplace = Moscow
nationality = Russian
field = Poetry, Collage, Artist's book
training =
movement = Russian Futurism Zaum
works = "Universal War", 1916
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Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh (Russian: Алексей Елисеевич Крученых; last name also spelled Kruchonykh) (1886-1968), a well-known poet of the Russian "Silver Age", was perhaps the most radical poet of Russian Futurism, a movement that included Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk and others. Together with Velimir Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh is considered the inventor of "zaum". Kruchenykh wrote the libretto for the Futurist opera "Victory Over the Sun", with sets provided by Kazimir Malevich. He married Olga Rozanova, an avant-garde artist, in 1912.

Most famous poem of Kruchenykh

(1913)

External links

* [http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/fuchs/modules/input_output/Futurism/Krutchenykh.htm On Kruchenykh] (English)
* [http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/kruch/lkrucht1.htm Kruchenykh in Tiflis (from Chapter Nine of G. Janecek, "Zaum: The Transrational Poetry of Russian Futurism)"] (English)
* [http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/kruchenyx.html Biography and poems] (Russian)
* [http://www.futurism.ru/kruchenykh/kruchenykh_bio.htm Biography, bibliography] (Russian)
* [http://futurismrus.narod.ru/Kruchenyh.htm Four zaum poems] (Russian)
* [http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/kruch/lkron01.htm Visual Poems 1917 - 1921]