Career
Together with Velimir Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh is considered the inventor of zaum. Kruchenykh wrote the libretto for the Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun, with sets provided by Kazimir Malevich. He"s also known for his Declaration of the Word as Such (1913): «The worn-out, violated word "lily" is devoid of all expression.
Therefore I call the lily éuy – and original purity is restored.»
The Russian punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona have a reggae-styled song called "Posveshtenie A. Kruchenykh" (Homage to A Kruchenykh) on their 1990 concept album Instruktsiya po vyzhivaniyu.