| Description |
1 online resource (143 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Foreshadowed: Malevich's Black Square and its Precursors -- References -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements |
| Summary |
When Kasimir Malevich's Black Square was produced in 1915, no-one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. In fact, over the previous 500 years, several painters, writers, philosophers, scientists and censors - each working independently towards an absolute statement of their own - alighted on the form of the black square or rectangle, as if for the first time. This book explores the resonances between Malevich's Black Square and its precursors, showing how a 'genealogical' thread binds them together into an intriguing, and sometimes quirky, sequence of modulations. Andrew Spira's book explores how each predecessor both 'foreshadows' Malevich's work and, paradoxically, throws light on it, revealing layers of meaning that are often overlooked but which are as relevant today as ever |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935.
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Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935. Chërnyĭ kvadrat
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Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935 |
| SUBJECT |
Black Square (Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich) fast |
| Subject |
Suprematism in art.
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Suprematist.
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Suprematism in art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935.
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| ISBN |
9781789145366 |
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1789145368 |
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