Main entry:

Forgács, Éva, author.

Title & Author:

Malevich and interwar modernism : Russian art and the international of the square / Éva Forgács.

Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022.
©2022

Description:

vii, 316 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The sky is the limit: Malevich at the Vitebsk Junction, 1919. Malevich's road to Vitebsk ; Taking off: victory over the Sun ; Suprematism ; Conceptualizing suprematism ; Entering the Soviet world ; Vitebsk, 1919 ; Launching UNOVIS ; Suprematism: the new imagination -- The eighth Congress of the Bolshevik party and El Lissitzky's grasp of Suprematism, 1919. Lissitzky's road to Vitebsk ; The Bolshevik policy of nationalities ; Suprematism as ultimate redemption ; Lissitzky's rationalized suprematism -- Theo van Doesburg, artist and strategist. Van Doesburg's early career ; Elementary dissent ; The antiauthoritarian authorities of the Avant-Garde ; Generational issue in the Avant-Garde ; The Russian-Dutch connection ; The international of the square -- The irreconcilable conflict between constructivism and suprematism in Moscow. Postrevolutionary Moscow: the new state, the new art, and the new concept of the artist ; The "construction-versus-composition debate" at INKhUK ; Lissitzky's attempt to reconcile suprematism and constructivism -- The mirage of world revolution: postrevolution, postwar Berlin, and Moscow, 1918-1922. The world revolution will happen in Berlin ; The mirage of internationalism and the political reality ; The "silent majority" and the war experience ; Reins on the Avant-Garde in Russia ; The Russian emigration in Berlin ; Concepts of constructivism as kinetic structure versus static geometry in Berlin ; The magic of words -- As many narratives as narrators: Russian accounts of New Russian Art in the West. The first accounts ; Veshch, objet, gegenstand ; Ivan Puni's fierce critique of Malevich ; "New Russian Art": a talk by Lissitzky, Berlin, December 1922 -- The first Russian exhibition in Berlin, 1922, and its reception. The history of the exhibition ; The selection of the artworks ; Reception and major press reviews of the first Russian exhibition -- Respectfully challenging the master: Lissitzky and Malevich. A supremacist's tale of two squares: surpassing Malevich ; Proun room, 1923, as a further riposte ; Victory over the sun on paper, 1923 ; The Lenin tribune, 1924 ; Malevich's lasting influence -- The book that was not. Van Doesburg's thumbs-down on the Malevich volume. Translating Malevich's writings ; Van Doesburg kills the Malevich volume ; Van Doesburg's reasons ; Public intellectual versus prophet ; The end of a friendship ; Personal or cultural issues? -- Enter Malevich: exhibitions in post-Utopian Warsaw and Berlin, and the Bauhaus book, 1927. 1923: a watershed year ; Malevich in Warsaw ; The Berlin exhibition's context ; Visit to the Dessau Bauhaus ; Reception of the Berlin exhibition ; Volume 11 of the Bauhaus books series: Malevich's the non-objective world and suprematism -- The postwar scene and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam's Malevich exhibition, 1957. Three decades after the Berlin exhibition ; The Stedelijk Museum's Tour de Force ; The first building blocks of a new narrative ; The manuscripts left in Berlin -- The new left's role in retrieving the interwar Avant-Gardes and reclaiming the Russian Avant-Garde in the 1960s. Reconquering everyday life ; The Russian Avant-Garde in galleries and museums ; "It's only a beginning!"

Summary:

"This book examines the legacy of international interwar modernism as a case of cultural transfer through the travels of a central motif: the square. The square was the most emblematic and widely known form/motif of the international avant-garde in the interwar years. It originated from the Russian artist Kazimir Malevich who painted The Black Square on White Ground in 1915 and was then picked up by another Russian artist El Lissitzky and the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg. It came to be understood as a symbol of a new internationalism and modernity and while Forgács uses it as part of her overall narrative, she focuses on it and its journey across borders to follow its significance, how it was used by the above key artists and how its meaning became modified in Western Europe."--Amazon.

ISBN:

9781350204171 (hardcover)
135020417X (hardcover)
9781350204195 (ePub ebook)
9781350204188 (PDF ebook)

Subject:

Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935
Lissitzky, El, 1890-1941
Doesburg, Theo van, 1883-1931
Modernism (Art) History 20th century.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Square in art.
Art, Modern.
Modernisme (Art) Histoire 20e siècle.
Art 20e siècle.
Carré dans l'art.
Modernism (Art)

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325488
Call No.: 325488
Copy: 1
Status: Available