Foreshadowed: Malevichs Black Square and Its Precursors
Foreshadowed: Malevichs Black Square and Its Precursors An exploration of Kasimir Malevich's radical 1915 artwork, its predecessors, and its continuing relevance.When Kasimir's Malevich's Black…
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Foreshadowed: Malevichs Black Square and Its Precursors
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. 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. And yet it does have precedents.
Andrew Spira's book explores how each predecessor both foreshadows Malevich's work and, paradoxically, throws light on it, revealing layers
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