Authors

Lauren Warner-Treloar¹;  ¹ Kingston University, UK

Discussion

In the twentieth century, artists of all descriptions in most artistic movements engaged in the book experiment, an important artistic platform. Following the collapse of the Romanov empire in 1917 and particularly in the run up to the formation of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1922, the transnational Futurist collaborative book project served as a platform to construct new cultural identities in Transcaucasia. In Transcaucasia, these small print works linked different activity centres across geographical, political, and cultural boundaries and served as part of a wider intermingling of mass media. Through specific case studies, such as To Sofia Georgievna Melnikova: The Fantastic Tavern (1919), I show how these collaborations were ahead of their time in their objectives and outcomes.