Ego-Futurists

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Ego-Futurists were a Russian avant-garde literary group that emphasized radical individualism, experimental poetics, and a break with traditional artistic forms in the early 20th century.

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Label Occurrences
Ego-Futurism 1
Ego-Futurists canonical 1
Hylaea (Gileya) Futurist group 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Russian avant-garde movement
literary movement
poetry movement
activeIn Moscow
St. Petersburg
artisticMovementContext Russian avant-garde
coreConcept cult of the poet’s personality
self-deification of the artist
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
declineReason internal conflicts
rise of other Futurist groups
dissolved 1914
distinguishedFrom Cubo-Futurists
linked to: Cubo-Futurism
focusesOn individual ego
self
subjective perception
foundedBy Igor Severyanin
hasCharacteristic celebration of modernity
emphasis on the lyrical “I”
experimental poetics
provocative manifestos
radical individualism
rejection of traditional artistic forms
typographical experimentation
urban themes
use of neologisms
historicalPeriod early 20th century
inception 1911
influenced later Russian avant-garde poetry
influencedBy Italian Futurism
Symbolism
language Russian
literaryGenre poetry
mainRegion Russia
movementType avant-garde
notableMember Georgy Ivanov
Igor Severyanin
Ivan Ignatyev
Konstantin Olimpov
Vasily Gnedov
Vladimir Shershenevich
notableWork early collections of Igor Severyanin
“Ego-Futurism in Poetry” manifesto
opposedTo Realism
traditional classicist poetics
partOf Russian Futurism
sharesBorderWith Cubo-Futurists
linked to: Cubo-Futurism
usedMedium poetry readings
small literary journals

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Russian Futurism notableGroup Ego-Futurists
Zaum poetry associatedWithGroup Hylaea (Gileya) Futurist group
linked to: Ego-Futurists
David Burliuk coFounded Hylaea Futurist group
linked to: Ego-Futurists
Igor Severyanin movement Ego-Futurism
linked to: Ego-Futurists