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

Big Bang: Timeline of Russian Avant-Garde Book Arts and Their Cultural Impacts

This historical timeline is based upon bi-weekly publishing information in Knizhnaia letopis', and reprinted in Susan Compton. The World Backwards: Russian Futurist Books, 1912-16. It is cited in Getty Research Institute metadata. The timeline provides a highly granular historical sequence, which allows for intermedia comparison with other cultural phenomena, and advances the general proposition of this study that the unique synthesis of experiences and products of book arts Russian artist books played a defining role in the cultural explosion known broadly as the Russian Avant-garde. The holistic creative endeavor of book design subsumed other component elements of represented image, decorative graphics and text into a synthetic challenge to "textuality," the internalized expectations of a reading process base upon centuries of exposure to a mechanically printed codex. The book page as a reading space imposed a fundamentally new and different order of meaning upon framed imagery, and, by eliminating marginal boundaries, subsumed within its unprinted paper surfaces even the most radical experimentations in non-Euclidean and nth-dimensional pictorial space.  

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  1. Malevich, K. "Death of a person simultaneously on an airplane and on a railroad," in Vzorval' (1913)
  2. Kruchenykh, A. "Dyr bul shchyl," from Pomada (1913)
  3. el Lissitzky. PROUN vrashchenie (PROUN of Rotation), 1919
  4. Kruchenykh, Aleksei. Pomada (Pomade), 1913 (cover)
  5. Larionov, Mikhail. Illustration from MirsKONtsa (WorldBACKwards), 1912
  6. Malevich, K. "Eight Red Rectangles," 1915
  7. Proun 1 A, Bridge I
  8. Mikhail Larionov. "Hapy Autumn," 1912
  9. Kruchenykh, A. and Khlebnikov, V. Te li le (Te Li Le), 1914 (cover)
  10. Kruchenykh, Aleksei. Dve poemy Pustynniki Pustynnitsa (Two Poems: Hermits, Hermitess), 1913 (cover)
  11. Kruchenykh, A, and Khlebnikov, V. MirsKONtsa (WorldBACKwards), 1912 (cover)
  12. Mayakovsky, Vladimir. Vladimir Mayakovsky: a tragedy by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1914 (cover)
  13. Kruchenykh. Starinnaia liubov' (Ancient Love). 1912 (cover)
  14. Kamenskii, Vasilli. Tango s korovami: Zheleznobetonnye poemy (Tango With Cows: Ferro-Concrete Poems), 1914
  15. Burliuk, D. and N., et al. Poshchechina obshchestvennomu vkusu : stikhi, proza, statʹi (A Slap in the Face of Public Taste: Poetry, Prose, Essays), 1913 (cover)
  16. Kruchenykh, A. Pobeda nad solntsem (Victory over the Sun), 1913
  17. el Lissitzky and Studio. Lenin Tribune, 1920
  18. "Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings, 0.10" (15 December 1915–17 January 1916, Galerie Dobytschina, Saint Petersburg)
  19. Vladimir Mayakovsky. Dlia golosa (For the Voice), book design by el Lissitzky, 1923
  20. Electrification of the Entire Country
  21. Kruchenykh, Aleksei. Vzorvalʹ (Explodity), 2nd Ed. (1913)
  22. Malevich, K. "Chernyi kvadrat" (Black Square), 1915
  23. Tango with Cows
  24. Zdanevich, Il'ia (Iliazd). lidantIU fAram (Le Dantiu the Beacon), 1923
  25. "Poems of V. Khlebnikov" (page from MirsKONtsa (WorldBACKwards), 1912
  26. Construction [Dynamic City]
  27. projecting podium launches Lenin, and his oration, into space
  28. The Black Circle