Vzorval’ (Explodity)
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Artist: Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962)
Artist: Nikolai Ivanovich Kulbin (1868 - 1917)
Artist: Kazimir Malevich (Russian, 1878-1935)
Artist: Ol'ga Rozanova (Russian, 1886-1918)
Artist: possibly Natan Al'tman (1889-1970)
Author: Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886-1969)
Date: 1914
Dimensions:
Approx: 6 15/16 x 4 9/16 in. (17.7 x 11.5 cm)
Medium: Lithograph, rubber stamp and watercolor
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 1981.51A
Label Text:Explodity, an early Russian Futurist book, was the collaborative enterprise of leading Cubo-Futurist artists and the influential Futurist poet Aleksei Kruchenykh. Olga Rozanova, who lithographed and watercolored the book cover, explained to her sister that the meaning of the invented word "explodity" was bomb; Kruchenykh, her companion, later referred to this book as "a tremor, an explosion." In words, images, and design, it expressed a desire for radical change. Both poet and artists convey dissonance and disturbance, what the Futurists approvingly called zloglas (cacophony).
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