Celebrating Suprematism
New Approaches to the Art of Kazimir Malevich
Series:- Russian History and Culture, Volume: 22
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.
Christina Lodder is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Kent. Her numerous publications include
Russian Constructivism (1983),
Constructing Modernity: The Art and Career of Naum Gabo (co-author, 2000),
Rethinking Malevich (co-editor, 2007), and
Utopian Reality (co-editor 2013).
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
Anyone interested in modernism, the development of abstraction, Russian art and culture of the 1910s and 1920s, the movement of fine art into design, the relationship between art and science, Russian Avant-Garde, Kazimir Malevich, Suprematism, Unovis, constructivism, architecture, El Lissitzky.