KRUCHONYKH, Aleksei Eliseevich

The wild man of Russian Futurism, notorious for his Zaum poetry, Kruchonykh began his career as an art teacher but became associated with the Hylaea branch of the Russian Futurists and, in 1912, began publishing a series of lithographed primitivist booklets with his own and other Futurists' poetry, with illustrations by Mikhail Larionov (1881–1964), Natalia Goncharova (1881–1962), Kazimir Malevich , and others. Kruchonykh's most famous poem, Dyr bul shchyl, is the first Russian poem...