Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde

Examining futurist book art produced by visual artists and poets working in Russia between 1910 and 1917, this research project explored how Russian futurism expanded the boundaries of the artist’s book through experiments with poetry, imagery, and sound. As scholarship on historical avant-gardes has largely failed to recognize the significance of Russian futurist book art in the history of modernism, this project made the hybrid Russian art form better known to the broader public and researchers of Russian poetry, visual culture, musicology, and Slavic languages and literature.