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Beyonsense: The Russian Avant-garde and the Illustrated Book, 1913–1920
July 21–October 22, 2006


This exhibition explores a moment of radical experimentation on the illustrated book. During the first decades of the 20th century, Russian avant-garde artists and poets collaborated on small illustrated volumes of poetry, theory, and prose in which text merges with illustration, and written language becomes visual imagery. In the pages from these books, visitors will be confronted with an innovative, challenging, and playful confusion of word and image. The exhibition features the work of Kazimir Malevich, Natalia Goncharova, Nikolai Kulbin, El Lissitzsky, and others.

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Image: Kazimir Severinovich Malevich, cover for the pamphlet "Congress of Committees on Rural Poverty," 1918, color lithograph, Dallas Museum of Art, The Art Museum League Fund in honor of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Clark, 1978.83.1–2

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