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In 1915, Kazimir Malevich changed the future of modern art when his experiments in painting led the Russian avant-garde into pure abstraction. He called his innovation Suprematism--an art of pure geometric form meant to be universally comprehensible regardless of cultural or ethnic origin. His Suprematist masterpiece, White Square on White (1920-27), continues to inspire artists throughout the world. Focused exclusively on this defining moment in Malevich's career, Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism features nearly 120 paintings, drawings and objects, among them several recently discovered masterworks. In addition, the book includes previously unpublished letters, essays and diaries, along with essays by international scholars, who shed new light on this popular figure and his devotion to the spiritual in art. Edited by Matthew Drutt.~Essays by Jean-Claude Marcadé, Nina Gurianova, Vasilii Rakitin, Tatiana Mikhienko and Yevgenia Petrova. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in./272 pgs / 120 color 60 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20401 ... Read more

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for all malevich mavericks
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. ... Read more

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In 1915, Kazimir Malevich changed the future of modern art when his experiments in painting led the Russian avant-garde into pure abstraction. He called his innovation Suprematism--an art of pure geometric form meant to be universally comprehensible regardless of cultural or ethnic origin. His Suprematist masterpiece, White Square on White (1920-27), continues to inspire artists throughout the world. Focused exclusively on this defining moment in Malevich's career, Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism features nearly 120 paintings, drawings and objects, among them several recently discovered masterworks. In addition, the book includes previously unpublished letters, essays and diaries, along with essays by international scholars, who shed new light on this popular figure and his devotion to the spiritual in art. Edited by Matthew Drutt.~Essays by Jean-Claude Marcadé, Nina Gurianova, Vasilii Rakitin, Tatiana Mikhienko and Yevgenia Petrova. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in./272 pgs / 120 color 60 BW0 duotone 0 ~ Item D20401 ... Read more

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for all malevich mavericks
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. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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if this is disclosure ...
Individuals raised together but in isolation from the rest of the world sometimes develop a private language impenetrable to outsiders. Here's an example: "What Planck and all other physicists thought disturbing about the derivation of his formula, was that it found no coherent impetus in the logical realm of scientific inquiry. His assertion of random intuition precedes the radicality of implication, because it was previously such an expanded conception of science that transformed man's capability of universal apperception, The final outcome of arbitrary creation integrated into empirically relevant models is, as one might imagine, that anything conceived of is anything experienced."
This book was published by the publisher of the Chicago Manual of Style. ... Read more