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44 Chapter Seven:

THE CUBIST REVOLUTION IN PAINTING.

Russian Futurism—particularly as embodied in the work of Khlebnikov-is widely recognized to have been a manifestation in Russian art of the wider European art—revolution of the time, especially of French Cubism. The aspects of Khlebnikov's art discussed earlier—its 'magic' intent, its 'transcendence of the "I"', its activism and so on—are in this chapter shown to have been aspects also of Cubist art. The chapter also introduces a theme later to be discussed in relation to Khlebnikov: the way in which scientific and technological developments and inventions were revolutionizing human communications and affecting the newest forms of art.