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Informationen zum Autor Andrei Nakov is the leading world expert on the work of Kazimir Malevich and the Russian avant garde. He is the author of the Malevich catalogue raisonne (2002), an extensive critical anthology of the writings of Malevich (1975), and L'Avant-garde Russe (1984). Kazimir Malewicz: Le Peintre Absolu (the French edition of the present book) was awarded a prize in 2007 by the Academie francaise des Beaux-Arts. He has organised numerous exhibitions on Dada, Constructivism and abstract art, including the Tate Gallery's Malevich exhibition in 1976." Klappentext Andrei Nakov's monumental 4-volume study of Russian painter Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) is founded on many decades of research in Russia, Western Europe and the US. The author has uncovered many previously unknown documents, and sheds a new light on Malevich's pivotal role in the development of modern art, offering a radially new interpretation of a fascinating artist." Zusammenfassung A 4-volume study of Russian painter Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935) is founded on many decades of research in Russia, Western Europe and the US. It uncovers many documents, and sheds a new light on Malevich's pivotal role in the development of modern art, offering a radially different interpretation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Volume 1: Foreword! Heroic Overture; 1 From Kursk to Moscow: The growth of a vocation; 2 Impressionism Impressionist fervor: "Operations concerning light"; 3 Symbolism "The quest for the great cosmogonic myth"; 4 Expressionism Colors igniting in the painter's mind; 5 A "heroic aesthetic"; 6 Cubism The "significant volume"; 7 Futurism "The new rhythm"; 8 Cubo-Futurism "Stripping away the banal appearance of things"; 9 A reply to Futurism: "Changing quantity into quality"; 10 Transrationalism "On the threshold of a new spring": The revolution of Victory over the Sun; 11 "Planes are appearing"; 12 The Alogist revolution "Casting off the luggage of wisdom". Volume 2: 13 The dawn of Suprematism: The transition to "purely painterly" works; 14 Suprematism 1 The square! a "gateway to revelation"; 15 The 0.10 exhibition: Escaping from the "circle of things"; 16 Suprematism 2 "Forms must be given life"; 17 Suprematism 3 "Studying evanescent forces"; 18 Suprematism's impossible conquest of Moscow 19 Suprematism 4 A "philosophical color system"; 20 Suprematism 5 "The doctrine of the barren space"; 21 Prometheus assailed! or the difficulty of "bestowing spiritual gifts on one's contemporaries"; 22 Suprematism 6 The crux of Suprematist painting after 1919; 23 The barometer of incomprehension. Volume 3: 24 Conquering volumes: "Absolute architectonics devoid of any material utility"; 25 "Scanning the world from the pinnacle of art"; 26 Returning to shadows: A European repute and inner exile; 27 The quest for the "new image of man"; 28 Silent painting; 29 Ora pro nobis Domine. Volume 4: 30 A life of creation: A biographical survey; 31 Techniques! style and execution: The professionalism of Malewicz's practice of painting; Addendum and corrections to the Catalogue Raisonne; Bibliography; Index. ...
