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
- Natalia Goncharova
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Title
- Worldbackwards (Mirskontsa)
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Place
- Russia (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1912
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Medium
- Handmade book with lithographs and lithographed text in black on cream wove paper, with collaged cover, pamphlet sewn
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Dimensions
- 18.7 × 14.9 × 0.5 cm (7 3/8 × 5 7/8 × 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Director's Fund, Laura T. Magnuson fund, Ada Turnbull Hertle fund
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Reference Number
- 2009.251
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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