Khlebnikovzayats. RIFAM book

The Russian avant -garde and the art of Rococo, the Renaissance masterpieces and the Imperial Kitsch, Velimir Khlebnikov and Albrecht Durer, the “appeal of the chairmen of the globe "and the medieval Persian miniature - what could be common in such different phenomena? And where does the hares?
You can learn about all this from the book of St. Petersburg philologist and art critic, Andrei Rossomakhin and Vasily Uspensky. This experimental "book of rhymes" is an attempt to look at world culture over the usual barriers - eras, nations, styles, genres - as a whole.
The reader will open only the previously unknown side of the work of the largest national poet Veliirah Khlebnikov (1885-1922), but also a kind of panorama of hares in world art - on the basis of the collection of state Hermitage. Hares and Hares Hares and Hares, a wonderful birth of hares from people and St. George, piercing the hare, humanized hares and rabbit breeders of the world revolution, hares as a symbol of purity and as an attribute of evil spirits ...
The image of a hare in the works of Khlebnikov has not yet been a subject of attention, in this work an attempt was made for the first time to show how significant for the poet the “hare” topic, dozens of times arising in its most diverse texts. Most often, hares or rabbits - with which the poet identified himself and his country and era - are found in the works of 1915-1916, as well as in the works of the last year of life.
We can talk not only about the existence of a special lyrical “hare cycle” in his work, but also that Russia associated the Russia of the era of two wars (world and civil) and two revolutions (February and October) with a hare. In the days of militaristic hysteria and universal wildness, a pacifist pathos becomes an important leitmotif in his works