| Zusammenfassung: | Mikhail Larionov, along with his companion, Natalia Goncharova, was one of the ringleaders of the newly established Russian avant-garde, which came into being during the early decades of the twentieth century. Larionov's proclamation entitled "The Quarrel between 'the Tails' and 'the Jacks'" appeared in the Moscow-based newspaper "Golos Moskvy" on 11 December 1911. Translated here for the first time into English, the article, which is really an amalgamation of defiant declarations, rather than a sustained narrative, reflects the rift that had just occurred within one of the first groups of the Russian avantgarde--the Jack of Diamonds. Larionov's rejection of the Frenchifying tendencies of the Jacks resulted in the establishment of the splinter group known as The Donkey's Tail, whose allegiance to the "primitive," eastern qualities of indigenous Russian folk art, became its distinguishing feature.
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