- Hardcover: 237 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; First Edition edition (1 Nov 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226120937
- ISBN-13: 978-0226120935
- Product Dimensions: 2.9 x 2.2 x 0.2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,540,089 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kasimir Malevich's (1878-1935) sudden and startling realization of a nonrepresentational way of painting, which he called Suprematism, stands as a seminal moment in twentieth-century art. Rainer Crone and David Moos trace the artist's development from his beginnings in the 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 nineteenth-century objectivity to an all-pervasive modernist subjectivity, relying upon Malevich's contribution to illustrate the ways cultural production is mediated through various modes of transmission. Rainer Crone holds the Chair for Twentieth Century Art at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitä t, Munich, and is adjunct professor of art history at Columbia University. David Moos is a doctoral candidate in art history at Columbia University.
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Individuals raised together but in isolation from the rest of the world sometimes develop a private language impenetrable to outsiders. Here's an example from this book: "What Planck and all other physicists thought disturbing about the derivation of his formula, was that it found no coherent impetus in the logical realm of scientific inquiry. His assertion of random intuition precedes the radicality of implication, because it was previously such an expanded conception of science that transformed man's capability of universal apperception, The final outcome of arbitrary creation integrated into empirically relevant models is, as one might imagine, that anything conceived of is anything experienced."
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