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Maker(s):Rozanova, Ol'ga
Culture:Russian (1886-1918)
Title:War, from the portfolio 'War'
Date Made:1916
Type:Print
Materials:Linoleum cut printed in red on paper
Measurements:Sheet: 16 1/16 x 12 1/4 in.; 40.8 x 31.1 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2001.56.3
Credit Line:Gift of Thomas P. Whitney (Class of 1937)
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
The portfolio’s frontispiece shows a single figure symbolizing and signaling the war. The figure is reminiscent of French and Russian revolutionary imagery—female figures storming forward with a sword in their extended right hand—and the apocalyptic image of the trumpeting angel. The Russian word placed above the figure, “Voina,” means “War.” Rozanova indicates only contours, and in this way leaves space for imaginary completion of the dynamic figure by the viewer.
BJ, 2014

Tags:
text; wars; writing

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