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Khan Academy: Olga Rozanova, 'A Little Duck's Nest... Of Bad Words'

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Books played a major role in 1913. Some books were hand-colorized by the artist, so each is unique, propose just a different relationship between text and images. Olga Rozanova is one of the artists who pioneered this new use of books. She worked with her companion, Aleksei Kruchenykh, a poet. "A Little Duck's Nest... of Bad Words" is with the [tale inlay] their most famous accomplishment. The idea was to free language from meaning, to free the words, to create words for the shape or the sounds, not to be bound to a specific meaning. [2:31]

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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)