| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1103925 | Russian Literature | 2012 | 25 Pages |
This article discusses the years of the great theurgic experiment in Russian culture. Nikolai Berdiaev characterized these years as “the transparent stone age”. My focus is on the interaction between the literary and visual arts from 1906 to 1922. How did the artists rework their media of expression in order to grasp the transcendental behind the physical world? In their own words, they strived to “pierce through the universe with the gaze”. Khlebnikov looked at the world from the macrocosmic perspective of his utopic vision of a perfectly “transparent” language, while Guro adopted a microcosmic perspective to penetrate into the prenatal life of beings. Chekryginʼs metaphysical vision implied restoration of the world in its original Edenic state.
