Russian Absurd

In “Let us look out the window” (1930), a piece of Futurist mini-theater—its

After their theatrical zaum-based (or “transrational,” “beyond the mind”), Dada-like performances were banned in 1927,

protoexistentialist

Kharms’s artlessness, in accordance with our age, is an anti-art, an insistence that genuine art is autonomous from the “real world” rules of logic, and that meaning is to be found in the objects and words themselves, outside of any practical function.