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Disrupting conventional orders of perception, the words here move erratically across the page. These two pages are from the second edition of Explodity, an early Russian Futurist book whose title suggests an explosion or bomb. When the book was bound, the text’s disorderly, non-linear appearance was emphasized as the pages were stapled together at various angles to look off center.
Explodity is the result of a collaboration between the poet Aleksei Kruchenykh and the painters Natalia Goncharova, Nikolai Kulbin, Kazimir Malevich, and Olga Rozanova. These pages by Kulbin reveal the interplay between zaum, sound poetry created by Kruchenykh composed of invented or distorted words of indeterminate meaning, and visual imagery that hovers on the edge of representation. Futurism developed in Russia around the turn of the 19th century in both literary and visual arts. The partnership between artist and writer was a crucial element in the production of Futurist books.
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Nicole Myers, DMA label copy, 2018.
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Created 1913
Cannot use this bio because it's just like wikipedia: https://monoskop.org/Nikolai_Kulbin
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- The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles~Explore this interactive companion to the 2016 Getty publication Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art.
- Museum of Modern Art, New York~Read Primitivism in Russian Futurist Book Design 1910-14 by Jared Ash.
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General Description
Disrupting conventional orders of perception, the words here move erratically across the page. These two pages are from the second edition of Explodity, an early Russian Futurist book whose title suggests an explosion or bomb. When the book was bound, the text’s disorderly, non-linear appearance was emphasized as the pages were stapled together at various angles to look off center.
Explodity is the result of a collaboration between the poet Aleksei Kruchenykh and the painters Natalia Goncharova, Nikolai Kulbin, Kazimir Malevich, and Olga Rozanova. These pages by Kulbin reveal the interplay between zaum, sound poetry created by Kruchenykh composed of invented or distorted words of indeterminate meaning, and visual imagery that hovers on the edge of representation. Futurism developed in Russia around the turn of the 19th century in both literary and visual arts. The partnership between artist and writer was a crucial element in the production of Futurist books.
Excerpt from
Nicole Myers, DMA label copy, 2018.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles~Explore this interactive companion to the 2016 Getty publication Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art.
- Museum of Modern Art, New York~Read Primitivism in Russian Futurist Book Design 1910-14 by Jared Ash.
Notes
Created 1913
Cannot use this bio because it's just like wikipedia: https://monoskop.org/Nikolai_Kulbin
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Kulbin, Nikolai Ivanovich (Russian, 1868–1917)
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