Hermits; Hermitess: Two Poems, 1913
Lithographs and lithographed text; bound volumeexpand_more
Gift of funds from Alfred and Ingrid Lenz Harrison and the William Hood Dunwoody Fundexpand_more B.90.1
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Natalia Goncharova's lithographs are executed in a "primitivist" style based on traditional Russian icon painting that inspired numerous contemporary painters and printmakers.
The curious arrangement of the text and illustrations at right angles to each other suggests that the book may have been intended to be produced in a smaller format. Aleksei Kruchenykh's Hermits consists of a pair of lengthy poems, consciously written in the style of Russian folk-poetry, which recounts life in a hermitage. The author evokes in surreal literary images the repressed blasphemous and erotic inclinations of the residents.
Details
- Title
- Hermits; Hermitess: Two Poems
- Artist Life
- Russian, 1881–1962
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- B.90.1
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Markov 43-44; Compton 20-21, 82; Paris-Moscow 165; Barron/Tuchman 67; Janecek 65; Andell 54; Hellyer 241; Ex-Libris 123; The Russian Avant-Garde Book 28
- Curator Approved
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