Modernism II

7th May 2006 with 0 Comments

The Russian Futurist writer Mayakovsky wrote:
In order to write about the tenderness of love, take bus number 7 from Lubyansky Square to Nogin Square. The appalling jolting will serve to throw into relief for you, better than anything else, the charm of a life transformed.
Mechanization, the Futurists believed, shaped not only perception (as it did [...]

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