Without revolutionary form there is not revolutionary art, Mayakovsky
Vladimir Mayakovsky was one of those great man that can do everything well. He wrote poems, plays and essays; he was graphic artist, photographer, work with the cinema, theater, but above all, he was a revolutionary. Mayakovsky was one of the first to use the photo-montage and experiments with typography in books. Mayakovsky dedicated his life to the socialism, but the disillusion of his dream leave him to the suicide.
Something more about him: State Museum of Majakovskiy and Mayakovsky and His Circle.
Does anyone know the full text of Mayakovsky’s saying re: ‘poetry, the most carrion-eatingest piece of thing, exists, and there’s nothing to be done about it’. I know it in russian but don’t remember where it came from.