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Tango with Cows (Tango s Korovami)

A work made of book with three lithographs in black and letterpress in black on yellow wallpaper.

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  • A work made of book with three lithographs in black and letterpress in black on yellow wallpaper.

Date:

1914

Artist:

David Burlyuk (American, born Ukraine, 1882-1967) and Vladimir Burlyuk (Ukrainian, 1887-1917)
written by Vasily Kamensky (Russian, 1884-1961)

About this artwork

Books by progressive Russian artists and poets, made between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, aimed to overthrow conventions of art and society simultaneously. Their makers believed that art and language needed to become immediate and real—part of everyday life—and as a result these Futurist books were willfully made with cheap materials, and appeared purposely unrefined, as if they were products of wild and primitive behavior.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

David Davidovich Burliuk

Title

Tango with Cows (Tango s Korovami)

Place

Ukraine (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1914

Medium

Book with three lithographs in black and letterpress in black on yellow wallpaper

Dimensions

19.8 × 20.2 × 0.5 cm (7 13/16 × 8 × 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund

Reference Number

2009.238

Extended information about this artwork

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