The Urban Themes and Stylistic Features in Vladimir Mayakovsky's Poem and Dziga Vertov's Film Man with a Movie Camera

Abstract

During the political and economic revolution of 1917 in Russia, artists of different art forms were undergoing a turmoil of modernism and Western avant-garde movements. Consequently, experiments with new creative ideas and techniques were stimulated to produce art that echoed the ever-rushing pace of urban life in the modernised society. In the midst of them all, day-to-day existence of the ordinary people in the grand metropolis were depicted with fragmented vision in both Vladimir Mayakovsky's poem "A Cloud in Trousers" and Dziga Vertov's film Man with a Movie Camera. The common features and themes in different art forms indicate the collective urban experience of the masses in Russia during that turbulent period, which were certainly fascinating and worth on-going studies.