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The article analyses the structural and stylistic aspects of the motif of the dial as it occurs in Russian pictorial art from Symbolism until the end of the Avant-Garde in the 1920s. The contamination of linear and cyclical time and the various geometric forms of the dial appear as “shimmering” mythology in the visual narrative. The motif of the dial or clock has many meanings and connotations: vanitas...
The paper deals with the role of nineteenth- and twentieth-century anarchism, and in the wider sense, anarchy in the Russian Avantgarde. Anarchist ideas were a strong factor in Malevich's ideas and work, culminating in the “Black Square”. The work of Kharms is closely connected with both anarchy and Malevich, as the element of the absurd favours principles such as non-selectiveness, de-hierarchization...
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