Kazimir Malevich in the State Russian Museum

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The State Russian Museum houses the world's largest collections of works by Kazimir Malevich. Features Paintings, drawings and watercolours, postcards, posters, book graphic art, archetectons and porcelain. Includes an exemplary Guide to the Catalogue.

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Kasimir Malevich: Black and White

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The extraordinary painting Black and White: Suprematist Composition (1915) by Kasimir Malevich (1879-1935) lies at the center of this compact volume. Recent conservation work has helped scholars to understand this single work better, and its story will help readers understand both the history of twentieth-century art and the process of keeping it in good health. Black and White was examined with optic and electron microscopes, spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, and, after having spent years rolled up, it was flattened on a vacuum table, after which loose paint around the edges was consolidated with tools as basic as a heated spatula and glue. But don’t try this at home. Dr. Andrei Nakov, a pioneering Malevich expert and the author of Malevitch écritsand Kazimir Malewicz: Catalogue raisonné writes about the history of the painting in an essay accompanied by 30 color plates.

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Kazimir Malevich: The Climax of Disclosure

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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 from this book: "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.

2004-01-23 (Santa Barbara) | Helpful Votes: 2 | Rating: 3

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Malevich (Great Modern Masters)

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Focusing on Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), one of the great pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, this is one of a series of illustrated monographs which offer introductions to modern art and artists. Each book presents a profile of the artist and analysis of his distinctive style. Malevich was a major figure in the Russian avant-garde, and a founder of Suprematism, which became the basis for most later trends in abstract painting. His life and work are traced from his early years to his triumphants Suprematist period, including his abanconment of painting altogether in 1918, in favour of teaching and designing architecture and objects for daily use.

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Customer Reviews

Colors a bit off, but good overall
As in all titles in the Great Modern Masters series published by Abrams: Colors are not vibrant, often with a brownish tint or/and too dark, and their accuracy is just O.K. There are 64 pages of a good size 9.5x12 inches (24x30.5 cm). It begins with an introduction with 5-6 small b&w pictures on 2 pages, which is followed by a biography with 5-6 small b&w pictures on 2 next pages. The rest is dedicated to good size over 60 full color plates divided into chapters dedicated to artist's carrier periods, style directions, or themes, each described by 12-16 lines of text. The series is inferior to the same size paperback series published by Taschen in 1990s, but superior to Taschen's series of smaller sizes published latter. Unfortunately, the Taschen series does not cover Bacon, Botero, Brancusi, Braque, Calder, de Chirico, Johns, Kokoschka, Leger, Man Ray, Malevich, Modigliani, and Rouault this series does.

2009-07-12 | reluctant reader (Bronx, NY USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3

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A Nice Introduction to Kazimir Malevich and His Work
I've long been a fan of the brilliant Russian painter Kazimir Malevich. He along with Paul Cezanne are my two favorite painters, so when I ran across this book in my local Salvation Army store, I was delighted. Though only 64 pages long, some of his finest work is shown here, including two my two favorite paintings of his, "Woman in a Yellow Hat" and "Unemployed Girl".

The book opens with a short two paged chapter called "Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde" the goes into another two page chapter on Kazimir Malevich where you'll find out who he was, where he painted and what that and why who he was is important.

Like me, Malevich admired Cezanne, but unlike me, he was hugely talented, was able to see Cezanne's work and take it to a different level. He believed Cezanne's attempt "to create a new order independent of the natural one in painting was the course that modern artists should follow" as he shifted to a cubist style. He considered himself a Cubo-Futurist and he was a member of the Russian Futurist group.

Though I admire all of his work, it's the work he did before he coined the idea of Suprematism that I like the best, the French Post-Impressionist looking stuff. Also, I didn't know he did propaganda posters during WW I supporting the Russian war effort. I've never seen them, but I'm going to go to Google after I post this review and see if I can find some.

If you've ever wandered into an art gallery and enjoyed yourself, then you'll enjoy this book and you just might learn a little something, I know I did.

Reviewed by Stephanie Sane

2008-10-31 (from the Asylum) | Helpful Votes: 3 | Rating: 5

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Rethinking Malevich: Proceedings of a Conference in Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of Kazimir Malevich's Birth

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"Rethinking Malevich" is an English-language collection of sixteen innovative essays by leading international scholars that document new and intriguing aspects of Kazimir Malevich's art and biography. This latest research on the Russian modern artist appears after more than seventy years of political and cultural difficulties - including the East-West bifurcation of his artistic and written legacy - that impeded the study and understanding of his work. For the first time, the greater portion of Malevich's work and writings was available for the scholarly research and study undertaken here. The result is a wealth of new details about this pioneer of abstraction, including: explorations of his early art education; the differences in the reception of his abstract art by Western and Russian audiences; the appearance of his work in 1936 at the Museum of Modern Art; the artist's special relationship with Ukraine. The development of his art is considered alongside that of Vasily Kandinsky and Giorgio De Chirico, and his philosophy is examined in comparison with the ideas of Nikolai Fedorov and Ortega-y-Gasset. The history of Russian and Soviet art in the 1920s and 1930s is intricately interwoven with the revolutionary social changes taking place throughout the country. Here are details of the political maneuverings Malevich went through in Russia to protect his art and his friends, and his reaction to Lenin's death in 1924 and the subsequent growth of the "Lenin myth." Rethinking Malevich reveals the complex early interweaving of Suprematism and Constructivism, considers little-researched aspects of the artist's Post-Suprematist period, and the history of Malevich's literary legacy. Not least, it demonstrates the various ways in which Malevich's art continues to stimulate the highly unusual work of contemporary Russian artists.

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