Main entry:

Perloff, Nancy, author.

Title & Author:

Explodity : sound, image, and word in Russian futurist book art / Nancy Perloff.

Publication:

Los Angeles, California : Getty Research Institute, [2016]
©2016

Description:

vii, 199 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
"The artists' books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poets--including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky--collaborated to fabricate hand-lithographed books, for which they invented a new language called zaum (a neologism meaning "beyond the mind") that was distinctive in its emphasis on "sound as such" and its rejection of definite logical meaning. At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval' (Explodity). In addition, Nancy Perloff examines the profound difference between the Russian avant-garde and Western art movements, including futurism, and she uncovers a wide-ranging legacy in the midcentury global movement of sound and concrete poetry (the Brazilian Noigandres group, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Henri Chopin), contemporary Western conceptual art, and the artist's book."--ECIP data view
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From the provinces: anticipations of Mirskontsa -- Sounding the accidental ("death to symbolism") -- Mirskontsa: collaborative book art and transrational sounds -- Unlocking the semantics of sound in vzorval' -- The afterlife of Russian futurist book art.

Summary:

"The artists' books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poets--including Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky--collaborated to fabricate hand-lithographed books, for which they invented a new language called zaum (a neologism meaning "beyond the mind") that was distinctive in its emphasis on "sound as such" and its rejection of definite logical meaning. At the heart of this volume are close analyses of two of the most significant and experimental futurist books: Mirskontsa (Worldbackwards) and Vzorval' (Explodity). In addition, Nancy Perloff examines the profound difference between the Russian avant-garde and Western art movements, including futurism, and she uncovers a wide-ranging legacy in the midcentury global movement of sound and concrete poetry (the Brazilian Noigandres group, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Henri Chopin), contemporary Western conceptual art, and the artist's book."--ECIP data view

ISBN:

9781606065082 (hardcover)
1606065084 (hardcover)

Subject:

Futurism (Literary movement) Russia.
Futurism (Art) Russia.
Literature, Experimental Russia 20th century History and criticism.
Artists' books Russia History 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) History 20th century.
Futurisme (Mouvement littéraire) Russie.
Futurisme (Art) Russie.
Littérature expérimentale Russie 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Livres d'artistes Russie Histoire 20e siècle.
Literature, Experimental History and criticism Russia 20th century.
Artists' books.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Futurism (Art)
Futurism (Literary movement)
Literature, Experimental.
Buchdruck
Futurismus
Künstlerbuch
Kunstbuch
Russia.
Russland

Form/genre:

artists' books (books)
Artists' books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Getty Research Institute, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294621
Call No.: BIB 240309
Status: Available