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Foreshadowed: Malevich’s Black Square and Its Precursors - Hardcover

Spira, Andrew

 
9781789145359: Foreshadowed: Malevich’s Black Square and Its Precursors
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 178914535X ISBN 13: 9781789145359
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

An exploration of Kasimir Malevich’s radical 1915 artwork, its predecessors, and its continuing relevance.
 
When Kasimir’s 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 five hundred 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 so-called 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew Spira is an independent art historian. He is the author of several books, including The Avant-Garde Icon: Russian Avant-Garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition.

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Verlag
Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
178914535X
ISBN 13 
9781789145359
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
142
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