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Exploding Tongues: Language, Art, and the Russian Avant-garde Main Menu Back to Futurism: Russian Artist Books Introductory Page by Chris Gilman BookENDS: A Working Theory of Textuality as Cultural Dominant, 1912- An Introduction and Conclusion to a Semester's Investigation into the Book Arts as an Avant-garde Practice Book Case Studies Collaborative Research by Case Studies Big Bang: Timeline of Russian Avant-Garde Book Arts and Their Cultural Impacts A Timeline of Russian Avant-Garde Book Arts and Their Cultural Impacts CoaRse CaLIBration ARTS 227 "Introduction to Letterpress Printing" (Pedersen) and CSLC134/RUSN334 "Exploding Tongues" (Gilman) NthOlogy A limited edition collaborative book arts project by students of ARTS 227 (Pedersen) and CSLC 134/RUSN 334 (Gilman), Spring, '17 MANIFESTERS (AB & Kelly): A portfolio of process and products Appendix: A Path Through Russian Avant-Garde Books ILiADS (Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship)

Group Project Proposals

12041 Square One: A Book-Making Collaboration between ARTS 227 and CSLC 134/RUSN334 A book-making collaboration between ARTS 227 "Introduction to Letterpress Printing" (Pedersen) and CSLC 134/RUSN334 "Exploding Tongues" (Gilman)

In preparation for individual group consultations with Professor Pedersen, each group will sketch a book page (begun in Studio), and, as an accompaniment, compose a manifesto, both due Sunday, April 1, 11:59pm, and posted as media (an image and a pdf, respectively) to the course Scalar site. Any group that does not have a member with a Scalar account should email the materials directly to cgilman@oxy.edu. For inspiration and guidance in the creation of your own statements, browse through examples from the early Russian Avant-garde in the pdf below. George Maciunas's "Fluxus Manifesto" written a half-century later and an ocean away retains many of the same qualities and sensibilities. As you consider these historical documents, consider:

What is the relationship between the perspectives and ideas expressed in manifesti and the artwork they accompany?

Manifesti may be as brief as an extended paragraph and as long as a page, can be written in stylized fashion, and must somehow include the following elements:

A group name (e.g. World of Art, Union of Youth, Hylaea, Donkey’s Tail)
An “ism” (e.g. Rayism, Neo-Primitivism, Futurism, Cubo-Futurism, Ego-Futurism, Everythingism, Nothingism, Prism, Schism, etc.)
An articulation of the key theoretical principles, socio-political aspirations, and aesthetic qualities and devices at play in the book page, and in the “ism.”
Group members may devise pseudonyms, but must indicate their real names for credit

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