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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Маяковский, IPA: [məjɪˈkofskʲɪj] ; 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. He co-signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and wrote such poems as "A Cloud in Trousers" (1915) and "Backbone Flute" (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and produced agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. Though Mayakovsky's work regularly demonstrated ideological and patriotic support for the ideology of the Bolsheviks and a strong admiration of Vladimir Lenin, his relationship with the Soviet state was always complex and often tumultuous. Mayakovsky often found himself engaged in confrontation with the increasing involvement of the Soviet state in cultural censorship and the development of the State doctrine of Socialist realism. Works that criticized or satirized aspects of the Soviet system, such as the poem "Talking With the Taxman About Poetry" (1926), and the plays The Bedbug (1929) and The Bathhouse (1929), met with scorn from the Soviet state and literary establishment. In 1930, Mayakovsky killed himself. Even after death, his relationship with the Soviet state remained unsteady. Though Mayakovsky had previously been harshly criticized by Soviet governmental bodies such as the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers, Premier Joseph Stalin described Mayakovsky after his death as "the best and the most talented poet of our Soviet epoch".
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Nationalities
Russian, Georgian, Soviet
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Cinematographer, Critic, Designer, Graphic Designer, Playwright, Poet, Graphic Artist, Painter, Photographer
Names
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Mayakov, Vladimir Maiakovsky, Maïakovski, Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Majakovskij, Vladimir Vladimirovic Mayakovskij, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovski
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Works

20 works online

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Publication

  • Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented, 1918–1939. The Merrill C. Berman Collection at MoMA Edited by Jodi Hauptman and Adrian Sudhalter, 2020 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 288 pages
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