Exploding Tongues: Language, Art, and the Russian Avant-garde

The displacement of words elucidates the Dominant in text on page organization

Were the word order translated directly, the sentence would make no sense, “wedge red strike whites,” but because of the Russian case system, the sentence within the piece retains its semantic meaning, while also presenting the device explicitly, the Dominant of word organization on a page and the place of text within a painting.

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