A visitor looks out over the financial center of London from the Leadenhall Building, one of the City’s newest skyscrapers, by Will Oliver.
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Aleksei Kruchenykh
Aleksei Kruchenykh, ‘Vselenskaia voina (Universal war)’ (1916)
Audio recording. Poems read by Masha Chlenova, 2012. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Olga Rozanova
Olga Rozanova, ‘Explosion in a Trunk’ and ‘Destruction of Gardens’ from Universal War, an artist book by Aleksei Kruchenykh (1916)
‘Battle of the Futurist and the Ocean’ (~1916)
Chelsea Arts Club
On March 12, 1919, the Chelsea Arts Club held a costume party, called a Dazzle Ball, at Royal Albert Hall in London. It was inspired by the abstract geometric shapes on camouflaged ships in World War I , a method that was first employed by the British, who called it “dazzle painting” or dazzle camouflage. When the Americans adopted a comparable method, they referred to it by other names, among them “baffle painting,” “jazz painting,” and (rarely) “razzle dazzle.”
