Rebus Culture in the Late Russian Empire
A cultural history of nineteenth-century Russian picture riddles, their creators and solvers, with an opportunity to try solving and making rebuses. AI summary of the listing
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What can picture riddles (rebuses) reveal about nineteenth-century Russian imperial society? Ksenia Butuzova offers a cultural history of rebuses and the people who created, published, and solved them. Rebus-making attracted a diverse range of authors and gave creative agency to people previously excluded from the empire’s established institutions of cultural production. Yet rebuses, as aesthetically elaborate and…
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