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A work made of book with three lithographs in black and letterpress in black on yellow wallpaper.

Tango with Cows (Tango s Korovami)

1914

David Burlyuk (American, born Ukraine, 1882-1967) and Vladimir Burlyuk (Ukrainian, 1887-1917) written by Vasily Kamensky (Russian, 1884-1961)

Ukraine

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.

Book with three lithographs in black and letterpress in black on yellow wallpaper

Prints and Drawings