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

Visualized speech sounds

According to Nancy Perloff, four image elements could be read as the Cyrillic letters озЗ, or possibly СозЗ, if one were to include the figure's ear double-purposed as both a body part and alpha-numeric character. The graduated size of characters ozZ from right to left visually suggests a puff of air, corresponding to the implied sounds SOZZ (or OZZ).

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