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Lively sixties style twangers, Barry. On 22/01/2013, at 4:24 AM, Barry Alpert wrote: > Thanks, Max, for citing the performative moves of the Imaginists. I wonder if I'll ever be able to buy even one of the original Russian publications produced by them in the early twenties? > > Then there's the Scots band The Imagineers, a Craig Ferguson fave, who bear little resemblance to The Imaginists, but still: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YF2Rx3i7b8 > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZqYFxzSmEc&NR=1 > > > Barry > > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 23:05:46 +1100, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Overlooked here too. Fascinating lot by the sounds of it. >> >> Bill >> >> On 21/01/2013, at 10:33 AM, Max Richards wrote: >> >>> Russia was in the midst of civil war, with millions dying in battle, and from hunger or cold. The cities had emptied: by 1920 St Petersburg had lost almost three-quarters of its pre-Revolutionary population, and Moscow half; those who remained dismantled houses for firewood, leaving horse carcases to rot among the ruins. It was against this apocalyptic backdrop that the Imaginists led their bohemian lives, shocking as much by their incongruous frivolity as by their risqu� material. They declaimed in one murky caf� after another, strutting the streets of Moscow with walking sticks and in top hats; they staged prank after prank (in 1921 they renamed several main thoroughfares after themselves and hung a sign from the neck of a statue of Pushkin reading �I�m with the Imaginists�); they ran a bookshop and hounded out customers attempting to buy work by their rivals, while happily promoting their own books, of which they produced more than thirty in 1920 and 1921 alone. >>> >>> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v24/n05/tony-wood/im-with-the-imaginists >>> >>> review of >>> A Novel without Lies by Anatoly Mariengof, translated by Jos� Alaniz >>> Glas, 192 pp, �8.99, August 2001, ISBN 1 56663 302 8 >>> >>> [a 1927 novel, reprinted 1988, englished 2001] >>> 2001 - but overlooked by me then and since� >>> MR >