The
Hidden Sphere
(of Artistic Concerns) Cecil Orion
Touchon
Kasimir Malevich
Kasimir
Malevich and the Art of Geometry by John Milner
Book Description In a book that will change perceptions of early
abstract art and of Kazimir Malevich, one of the first and most extreme
of abstract artists, the author explores the Russian painter`s completely
unprecedented geometric style and offers a new way to look at his
works. John Milner analyzes the inspirational sources, methods, and meanings
of Malevich`s art of geometry, showing that it was based on an elaborate
system of space and proportion.
Painting
Revolution : Kandinsky, Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde by John
Bowlt (Editor)
I had the good fortune to see this traveling collection from the Soviet
Avant-Garde in Chicago last year. I was so amazed by the works catalogued
in this book that I returned to visit the show four times during its short
run there. The catalogue gives insight into each artist along with the
political climate that shaped and crushed this movement and the steps taken
by artists and curators to preserve these masterpieces. The color plates
are well done and the artist's profiles and quotes brought depth to my
understanding of the movement.
Kazimir
Malevich (Masters of Art) by Charlotte Douglas, Kazimir Severinovich
Malevich
Reviewer: A reader from Berkeley, CA A wonderful monograph detailing
the personal life and the works of the artist who gave the world
"White on White". Beautiful full-page color plates are paired with opposing
page descriptions, making browsing individual works easy. The descriptions
and analysis are insisive and accurate, well-grounded in the images and
with only an occasional leap beyond the facts. A separate section follows
his personal life and artistic development, including a lot of information
about the artists with whom he worked. This narrative perhaps does not
focus enough on the political atmosphere in which he worked (i.e., not
enough historical background) and how it might have affected his art, but
I recommend the book for its pictures alone. It was an assigned book for
one of my art history classes.
Malevich
and Film by Margarita Tupitsyn
Book Description Russian painter Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), unlike
other prominent Soviet artists, has not often been considered in discussions
of the contributions of the avant-garde to photography and film. Yet a
close examination of theoretical and practical aspects of Malevich's
oeuvre not only places him fully in the Soviet post-abstract discourse
on these media but also, as Margarita Tupitsyn argues in this engaging
book, alters the accepted view of his post-Suprematist period. Exploring
Malevich's involvement with film for the first time, Tupitsyn draws on
little known writings about cinema by the artist himself, newly accessible
works, and many previously unpublished photographs and documents. Malevich's
influence on twentieth-century art extends far more widely than has been
claimed for him before, the author concludes. The book begins with a reevaluation
of Malevich's most famous painting, Black Square, a work whose meaning
and function was in constant flux. Through Black Square Malevich
began to cross the bridge from the painting medium to mechanically
generated production, ultimately influencing the postrevolutionary phase
of his Suprematism and leading to his abandonment of abstraction in the
late 1920s. Tupitsyn discusses in detail Malevich's writing about the cinema,
the cinematic qualities of some of his works, the work of other contemporary
artists with bonds to cinematography, and the significant impact of Malevich's
thought and work on Russian, European, and American artists of the 1920s
and 1930s as well as the postwar period.
Malevich
on Suprematism : Six Essays 1915-1926 by Patricia Railing
Malevich
(Art in Hand) by Jeannot Simmen
In
Malevich's Circle: Confederates Students Followers in Russian 1920s - 1950s
by Yevgenia Petrova (Editor)
Kazimir
Malevich and the Sacred Russian Icons : Avant-Garde and Traditional
by Giorgio Cortenova (Editor)
Kazimir
Malevich : The Climax of Disclosure by Rainer Crone, David Moos (Contributor)
New
Art for a New Era : Malevich's Visions of the Russian Avant-Garde by
Evgenija Petrova (Introduction)
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