Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: From Voicelessness to Voice
Part I. Infantile Primitivism
Chapter One. Infant Art: Mikhail Larionov, Children’s Drawings, and Neo-Primitivist Art
Chapter Two. Infant Word: Aleksei Kruchenykh, Children’s Language, and Cubo-Futurist Poetics
Part II. Infantilist Aesthetics
Chapter Three. Infant Eye: Viktor Shklovsky, the Naive Perspective, and Formalist Theory
Chapter Four. Infant Mind: Daniil Kharms, Childish Alogism, and OBERIU Literature of the Absurd
Conclusion: The End Point of the Infantilist Aesthetic
Notes
Bibliography
Index