KAZIMIR MALEVICH: THE CLIMAX OF DISCLOSURE

Crone, Rainer & Moos, David

ISBN 10: 0948462213 / ISBN 13: 9780948462214

Published by Reaktion Books, 1991

About this Item

1st 1991. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper. Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) rose to instant prominence amongst the Russian avant-garde when, in December 1915, he contributed thirty-nine paintings to an exhibition in Leningrad which were of such a reduced and sophisticated abstract quality, that even today they seem to possess a hidden and ineffable conceptual power. Large format. Black cloth boards, white title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: KAZIMIR MALEVICH: THE CLIMAX OF DISCLOSURE
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Publication Date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0948462213
• ISBN 13: 9780948462214
• Binding: Hardback
• Illustrator: Malevich, Kazimir
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

Kasimir Malevich’s (1878–1935) sudden and startling realization of a nonrepresentational way of painting—which he called Suprematism—stands as a transformative moment in twentieth-century art. In this book, Rainer Crone and David Moos trace the artist’s development from his beginnings in Ukraine to his involvement with Futurist circles in Moscow through to the late 1920s and beyond. They convincingly demonstrate that Malevich’s late representational painting, still widely misunderstood, solidifies his extraordinarily inventive stance.

Against the historical background of distinctly Russian progressive cultural and scientific movements, the authors define affinities between Malevich’s work and other nonpolitical revolutions: relativity and quantum theory in physics; the work of Roman Jakobson and the “Prague School” in linguistics; and the exploration of language in the writings of the poet Velimir Khlebnikov. They situate the artist within the fundamental epistemological shift from nineteenth-century objectivity to an all-pervasive modernist subjectivity, relying upon Malevich’s contribution to illustrate the ways cultural production is mediated through various modes of transmission. With over one hundred illustrations, this engaging book presents Malevich as a uniquely creative artist, embodying in his work many of the insights and discoveries that define the twentieth century and the condition of modern life.

From the Back Cover

The authors elucidate Malevich's increasing concern with the central question of meaning, regarding how this work contributes to both the undermining of traditional modes of knowledge and the understanding of elaborate and more complex, indeterminate models of communications.