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Transrational Boog (Zaumnaia gniga)

A work made of book with nine color linocuts and collage on ivory, tan, brown, and blue papers and collaged cover, stapled.

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  • A work made of book with nine color linocuts and collage on ivory, tan, brown, and blue papers and collaged cover, stapled.

Date:

1916

Artist:

Ol’ga Rozanova (Russian, 1886–1918)
written by Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886–1968) and Roman Jakobson (Russian, 1896–1982)

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

Ol'ga Vladimirovna Rozanova

Title

Transrational Boog (Zaumnaia gniga)

Place

Russia (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.

1916

Medium

Book with nine color linocuts and collage on ivory, tan, brown, and blue papers and collaged cover, stapled

Dimensions

22 × 20 × 0.5 cm (8 11/16 × 7 7/8 × 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Frederick W. Renshaw Acquisition Fund

Reference Number

2009.271

Extended information about this artwork

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