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Explodity: Sound, Image, and Word in Russian Futurist Book Art kids “In keeping with their impressiveNancy Perloff The artists books made in Russia between 1910 and 1915 are like no others. Unique in their fusion of the verbal, visual, and sonic, these books are meant to be read, looked at, and listened to. Painters and poetsincluding Natalia Goncharova, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, and Vladimir Mayakovsky collaborated to fabricate hand lithographed books, for which they invented a new language called zaum (a neologism