Label Text:
The text translates as “During the firing on peaceful citizens, those condemned to execution were forced to dig their own graves... (Excerpt from a newspaper bulletin)”
Rozanova must have been familiar with Cubist and Futurist collages in which snippets of newspapers render reality, stand for a specific situation, and play with materiality. In addition, in War the newspaper text conveys the character of a lubok. The Futurist artist Rozanova, unlike Goncharova, likely did not deliberately cite this traditional broadsheet format. Yet a contemporary viewer would have made the connection with this popular Russian medium.
BJ, 2014
Tags:
abstract; cities; deaths; violence; wars; writing; text Subjects:
Wars; World War, 1914-1918; text (layout feature); Violence; Cities and towns; Art, Abstract; Writing; Death Link to share this object record:
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