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Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism

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The best available publication on Malevitch in English, this book is the catalogue for a recent exhibition held at the Guggenheim Museum in NY. It is not a complete survey, since it concentrates on one period, Suprematism, which roughly corresponds to the late 1910s and early 1920s, but it is a thorough study of some of the artist's most important works. Some rarely seen paintings drawn from the holdings of Russian museums are beautifully illustrated and explained. A must-have if you can still find a copy.

Hidden in the turn of the century turmiol of Russia was a man and philosophy that changed art. Though Kandinsky is known to most Westerners do to his Bauhus and post-war exile, Kazimir was one of the prime founders of pure abstraction. The book has many essays that expound his philosophy in a much more coherent way then Kandinsky's famous books. I must read for the non-objective artist or those who ponder, 'what does that mean?'.