Автор:Rainer Crone, David Moos Год: 2014 Издание:Reaktion Books Страниц: 352 ISBN: 9781780233796 Kasimir Malevich's 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...
