Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962) and Mikhail Larionov (Russian, 1881-1964)
written by Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886-1968)
Anchorites; Anchoress: Two Poems (Pustynniki; Pustynnitsa: Dve poemy)
INV-1990
Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962) and Mikhail Larionov (Russian, 1881-1964)
written by Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886-1968)1913
Anchorites; Anchoress: Two Poems (Pustynniki; Pustynnitsa: Dve poemy)
Natalia Goncharova (Russian, 1881-1962) and Mikhail Larionov (Russian, 1881-1964) written by Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886-1968) →bookpaper
Date
1913
Medium
Book with sixteen lithographs and lithographed text in black on cream wove paper
Dimensions
19.1 × 14.8 × 0.5 cm (7 9/16 × 5 7/8 × 1/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke Endowment Fund; Helen Davis Baily 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.