Full Description
Celebrating Suprematism throws vital new light on Kazimir Malevich's abstract style and the philosophical, scientific, aesthetic, and ideological context within which it emerged and developed. The essays in the collection, which have been produced by established specialists as well as new scholars in the field, tackle a wide range of issues and establish a profound and nuanced appreciation of Suprematism's place in twentieth-century visual and intellectual culture. Complementing detailed analyses of The Black Square (1915), Malevich's theories and statements, various developments at Unovis, Suprematism's relationship to ether physics, and the impact that Malevich's style had on the design of textiles, porcelain and architecture, there are also discussions of Suprematism's relationship to Russian Constructivism and avant-garde groups in Poland and Hungary.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Christina Lodder
1 New Information Concerning The Black Square
Irina Vakar
2 Defining Suprematism: the Year of Discovery
Charlotte Douglas
3 Malevich, the Fourth Dimension, and the Ether of Space One Hundred Years Later
Linda Dalrymple Henderson
4 The Path of Empirical Criticism in Russia or `The Milky Way of Inventors'
Alexander Bouras
5 Kazimir Malevich, Unovis, and the Poetics of Materiality
Maria Kokkori
6 Branches of Unovis in Smolensk and Orenburg
Alexander Lisov
7 Suprematism and/or Supremacy of Architecture
Samuel Johnson
8 Lazar Khidekel and Suprematism as an Embodiment of the Infinite
Regina Khidekel
9 `\dots In our time, when it became We \dots': a Previously Unknown Essay by Kazimir Malevich
Tatiana Goriacheva
10 `A thing of quality defies being produced in quantity': Suprematist Porcelain and Its Afterlife in Leningrad Design
Yulia Karpova
11 Suprematist Textiles
Julia Tulovsky
12 Suprematism: a Shortcut into the Future: the Reception of Malevich by Polish and Hungarian Artists during the Inter-War Period
\unichr{00C9}va Forg\unichr{00E1}cs
13 Conflicting Approaches to Creativity? Suprematism and Constructivism
Christina Lodder
Index
