List of Illustrations

Preface

The History of a Movement

Anatomy of a Literary Scandal: Mykhail' Semenko and the Origins of Ukrainian Futurism

The Scandal

Futurism and the Ukrainian Modernist Context

Modernism vs. Futurism

The Lean Years, 1914-1921

Aspanfut: The Association of Panfuturists

AsKK: Futurists among the Masses

The New Generation

Bumeranh

Cadres

Platform and Program

First Metamorphosis: VUARKK

Polemics with the Russians

Polemics with the "Right"

OPPU: Final Metamorphosis and the End of a Movement

The Theory of a Movement

Panfuturism: Blueprint for the Avant-Garde

Art as a Process

Towards the Liquidation of Art

The Theory of Cults

Ideology and Facture

Defining "Communist" Culture

Beyond "Great Art"

Exstruction: A Compromise with the Age of Transition

Functionalism

Aesthetics and Poetics

The Literary Legacy and the Major Practitioners

The Poetry

Mykhail' Semenko

Geo Shkurupii

Oleksa Slisarenko

Iuliian Shpol

The Prose

Introduction

Geo Shkurupii

Oleksa Slisarenko

Dmytro Buz'ko

Leonid Skrypnyk

Visual Experiments in Poetry and Prose

Conclusions

Abbreviations

References

Index