Foreshadowed: Malevich’s Black Square and Its Precursors
Foreshadowed: Malevich’s Black Square and Its Precursors
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Foreshadowed: Malevich’s Black Square and Its Precursors
W037011 | $25.00
Andrew Spira. Reaktion Books Ltd, London, 2022.
142 pp. Well Illustrated (chiefly col.). 22 x 16 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9781789145359
When Kasimir Malevich’s Black Square was produced in 1915, no one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. 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. Andrew Spira’s book explores how each predecessor both foreshadows Malevich’s work and, paradoxically, throws light on it, revealing layers of meaning that are often overlooked but which are as relevant today as ever.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Ukraine -- 1900-1945 -- Painting --
Artist(s): Malevich, Kasimir
W037011 | $25.00
Andrew Spira. Reaktion Books Ltd, London, 2022.
142 pp. Well Illustrated (chiefly col.). 22 x 16 cm. In English. Hardcover.
ISBN 9781789145359
When Kasimir Malevich’s Black Square was produced in 1915, no one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. 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. Andrew Spira’s book explores how each predecessor both foreshadows Malevich’s work and, paradoxically, throws light on it, revealing layers of meaning that are often overlooked but which are as relevant today as ever.
Subject Headings: Eastern and Western European Art ; Western Art -- Ukraine -- 1900-1945 -- Painting --
Artist(s): Malevich, Kasimir
