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Vzorval’ (Explodity)
cover

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)
Artistpossibly Natan Al'tman (1889-1970)
Author Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886-1969)
Date1914
DimensionsApprox: 6 15/16 x 4 9/16 in. (17.7 x 11.5 cm)
MediumLithograph, rubber stamp and watercolor
ClassificationPrints
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1981.51A
Not on View
Label TextExplodity, 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).Exhibition HistoryBetween the Wars; Sept. 5 2008 through Dec.31 2008 TMA: Russian Works On Paper (1913-1927), Dec.19,1981 - Feb.15,1982. Toledo Museum of Art, Werner Pfeiffer Selects, Feb. 13-May 10, 2015.
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