CUBO-FUTURISM

This term arose in Russia to distinguish native work from European Cubism. Whereas the work of Natalia Goncharova (1882–1962) and Mikhail Larionov (1882–1964) favored a Post-Picasso modernist primitivism based upon Russian peasant art, the brothers Burliuk (Vladimir [1886–1916] and David [1882–1967]) preferred more urban subjects. The innately mercurial Kazimir Malevich used this epithet for works he submitted for exhibitions in 1912 and 1913. Vladimir Markov's Russian Futurism (1968) devotes an...