Threesome (Troe)
St. Petersburg, 1913
Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian, 1885-1922), poetry and prose
Aleksei Kruchnykh (Russian 1886-1969?), poetry and prose
Elena Guro (Russian, 1877-1913), poetry and prose
Kazimir Malevich (Russian, 1878-1935), imagery
Lithography
Credit: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute (88-B29825)
Portrait of Akhmet
Mikhail Larionov (Russian, 1881-1964)
Lithograph
Velimir Khlebnikov and Alexei Kruchenykh, Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) (Moscow, 1912)
Credit: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute (88-B27486)
Hermit
Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962)
Lithography
Aleksei Kruchenykh, Dve poemy:
Pustynniki; Pustynnitsa (Two Poems:
Hermits; Hermitess) (Moscow, 1913)
Credit: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute (88-B26127)
A Game in Hell: Poem (Igra v adu: Poema)
Moscow, 1912
Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian, 1885-1922), poetry
Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886-1969?), poetry, handwriting
Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962), imagery
Lithography
Credit: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute (88-B25686)
Pomade (Pomada)
Moscow, 1913
Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian poet, 1886-1969?), poetry
Mikhail Larionov (Russian, 1881-1964), imagery
Lithography and collage
Credit: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute (88-B26240)
Worldbackwards (Mirskontsa)
Moscow, 1912
Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian, 1885-1922), poetry
Alexei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886-1969?), poetry
Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962), imagery (cover collage)
Mikhail Larionov (Russian, 1881-1962), imagery
Nikolai Rogovin (Russian, act. 1910s), imagery
Vladimir Tatlin (Ukrainian, 1885-1953), imagery
Collage (cover)
Credit: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute (88-B27486)
Te li le Object: 25 cm (9 13/16 in.)
St. Petersburg, 1914
Velimir Khlebnikov (Russian, 1885-1922), poetry
Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886-1969?), poetry
Olga Rozanova (Russian, 1886-1918), imagery and cover
Nikolai Kulbin (Russian, 1868-1917), imagery
Hectography in three colors
Credit: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute (88-B28007)
Tango with Cows (Tango s korovami)
Moscow, 1914
Vasily Kamensky (Russian, 1884-1961), poetry
Vladimir Burliuk (Ukrainian, 1887-1919), imagery
David Burliuk (Ukrainian, 1882-1967), imagery
Letterpress on wallpaper
Credit: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute (2567-605)
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917
November 18, 2008–March 22, 2009
Drawing principally from the Getty Research Institute's superb collection of Russian modernist books, Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910—1917 brings into focus a brief, but tumultuous period when Russian visual artists and poets, including Natalya Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, Alexei Kruchenykh, and Velemir Khlebnikov, challenged Symbolism and revolutionized book art. They fabricated pocket-sized, hand-lithographed books and juxtaposed primitive and abstract imagery with a transrational poetry they called zaum' ("beyonsense"). The exhibition traces the avant-garde's use of the materials of their book art—imagery, language and its sounds, design, graphic technique—to convey humor, parody, and an intriguing ambivalence and apprehension about Russia's past, present, and future.
For more information please visit: The Getty
-Joanne Molina