Part IV: Structuralism and Semiotics: Profiles of the Founders Jakobson and Trubetskoy: Chapter 20: Postscript of Dialogues: Roman Jakobson, His Poet Friends and Collaborators.

This article features Russian thinker Roman Jakobson and his friends and collaborators in the field. Jakobson's discoveries in the domain of linguistics returned to art as a creative impulse, and his entire spiritual orientation must be viewed as both a result and a corrective of avant-garde art and avant-garde science. As early as 1911-12 Jakobson became friends with Adol'f Mil'man, a landscape painter of the Derain style. It was Mil'man who brought Jakobson to see the collection belonging to Shchukin, one of the Moscow millionaires at the beginning of the century who were enthusiasts of French avant-garde painting. In 1913, Jakobson became personally acquainted with the painters Mikhail Larionov and Natal'ia Goncharova. He later used to meet with the couple in Paris, France.