David Burlyuk (American, born Ukraine, 1882-1967) and Vladimir Burlyuk (Ukrainian, 1887-1917)
written by Vasily Kamensky (Russian, 1884-1961)
Tango with Cows (Tango s Korovami)
INV-1990
David Burlyuk (American, born Ukraine, 1882-1967) and Vladimir Burlyuk (Ukrainian, 1887-1917)
written by Vasily Kamensky (Russian, 1884-1961)1914
Tango with Cows (Tango s Korovami)
David Burlyuk (American, born Ukraine, 1882-1967) and Vladimir Burlyuk (Ukrainian, 1887-1917) written by Vasily Kamensky (Russian, 1884-1961) →bookpaper
Date
1914
Medium
Book with three lithographs in black and letterpress in black on yellow wallpaper
Dimensions
19.8 × 20.2 × 0.5 cm (7 13/16 × 8 × 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund
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.