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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- David Davidovich Burliuk
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Title
- Tango with Cows (Tango s Korovami)
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Place
- Ukraine (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1914
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Medium
- Book with three lithographs in black and letterpress in black on yellow wallpaper
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Dimensions
- 19.8 × 20.2 × 0.5 cm (7 13/16 × 8 × 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund
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Reference Number
- 2009.238