Author

Publication

2016 - Getty Publications

Language

English

Word Count

62,000 words, Guess

Page Count

248 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781606065082
  • ISBN-101606065084
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016013972
  • OCLC Control Number950519462
  • Better World Books9781606065082
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPG3065.F8P47 2016
  • LCCPG3065.F8 P47 2016

Description

"The artists' books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poets--including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky--collaborated to fabricate hand-lithographed books, for which they invented a new language called zaum (a neologism meaning "beyond the mind") that was distinctive in its emphasis on "sound as such" and its rejection of definite logical meaning. At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval' (Explodity). In addition, Nancy Perloff examines the profound difference between the Russian avant-garde and Western art movements, including futurism, and she uncovers a wide-ranging legacy in the midcentury global movement of sound and concrete poetry (the Brazilian Noigandres group, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Henri Chopin), contemporary Western conceptual art, and the artist's book."--ECIP data view.

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