Scope and Contents Library University of Hamburg Internet: "While the avant-garde movements such as Futurism, Dadaism and Surrealism in the early 20th Century was one of the Russian avant-garde to the most important and was a leader in the development not only of abstract painting, but a new book designs. After the October Revolution of 1917 recognized ideologically for the construction of the new country, woke up the genre artist's book in Russia around 1985, during the perestroika, back to life and gained popularity - not only by the disappearance of censorship, but also as an art form, the could spread euphoria of those days; inspiration were the futuristic books of Russian avant-garde. The first exhibition of modern Russian artists book took place in 1990 in Leningrad instead, the exhibition, The Metamorphosis' is a small homage to it. It represents the interaction between the genres in the book arts at the center and examines how Russian artists in the last 25 years saw the book. In 50 works...

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Eighteen expressionistic self-portrait drawings done with black-gray watercolors are affixed one to each page. They measure approximately 12.5 cm x 7.5 cm. In addition, two drawings are done as full pages in black, blue, and yellow paint over a found (?) Russian calligraphic text. The pages in white painted, handwriting appears to be a sound poem dealing with the sentence in German, "I am a dummy" and extensions of this sentence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The backgrounds of several drawings are old postcards. Konstriktors's work is mounted on beige and Andryczuk's on cream color paper. the four drawings within the envelope were done with watercolor, magic marker, and rubberstamping. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Konstriktor filled a found notebook with drawings in ink, colored graphite and paint. The drawings include illustrations of strange creatures, varying handwritten typographic pages and writing combined with drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several artist books by Boris Konstriktor, one of the artists who participated in this exhibition, are held by he Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.