“A Theory of Art without the Art”: To the Question of the Place and Status of the Futurism Manifestos in the Cultural Space of the Epoch
The article analyses the status of mission statements in the subfield of avantgarde art. The manifesto of futurism blurs the lines of the aesthetic theory and artistic practice. In the avantgarde discourse text and metatext are located on one level, and the history of Saratov ‘psycho-futurism' proves that.