Transrational Boog (Zaumnaia gniga)
1916
Ol’ga Rozanova (Russian, 1886–1918) written by Aleksei Kruchenykh (Russian, 1886–1968) and Roman Jakobson (Russian, 1896–1982)
Russia
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 nine color linocuts and collage on ivory, tan, brown, and blue papers and collaged cover, stapled