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Rethinking Malevich: Proceedings of a Conference in Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of Kazimir Malevich’s Birth edited by Charlotte Douglas and Christina Lodder 24 x 17 cm 360 pp. 180 illus £75.00 Publication: November 2007 ISBN 1 904597 48 3 Cloth Bound

"Rethinking Malevich" is an English-language collection of sixteen innovative essays by leading international scholars that documents new and intriguing aspects of Kazimir Malevich’s art and biography. This latest research on the Russian modern artist appears after more than seventy years of political and cultural difficulties — including the East–West bifurcation of his artistic and written legacy — that impeded the study and understanding of his work. For the first time, the greater portion of Malevich’s work and writings was available for the scholarly research and study undertaken here.

The result is a wealth of new details about this pioneer of abstraction, including explorations of his early art education; the differences in the reception of his abstract art by Western and Russian audiences; the appearance of his work in 1936 at the Museum of Modern Art ; and the artist’s special relationship with Ukraine . The development of his art is considered alongside that of Vasily Kandinsky and Giorgio De Chirico, and his philosophy is examined in comparison with the ideas of Nikolai Fedorov and Ortega-y-Gasset. The history of Russian and Soviet art in the 1920s and 1930s is intricately interwoven with the revolutionary social changes taking place throughout the country. Here are details of the political maneuverings Malevich went through in Russia to protect his art and his friends; and his reaction to Lenin’s death in 1924 and the subsequent growth of the “Lenin myth.”

Rethinking Malevich reveals the complex early interweaving of Suprematism and Constructivism; considers little-researched aspects of the artist’s Post-Suprematist period; and the history of Malevich’s literary legacy. Not least, it demonstrates the various ways in which Malevich’s art continues to stimulate the highly unusual work of contemporary Russian artists.

Contents:

• Charlotte Douglas : Preface
• Christina Lodder : Malevich Scholarship: A Brief Introduction

1. John E. Bowlt: Kazimir Malevich and Fedor Rerberg
2. Elena Basner: The Early Work of Malevich and Kandinsky: A Comparative Analysis
3. Natalia Avtonomova: Malevich and Kandinsky: The Abstract Path
4. Tatiana Goriacheva: Suprematism and Constructivism: An Intersection of Parallels
5. Myroslava M. Mudrak: Malevich and his Ukrainian Contemporaries
6. Pamela Kachurin: Malevich as Soviet Bureaucrat: Ginkhuk and the Survival of the Avant-Garde, 1924–1926
7. Konstantin Akinsha: Malevich and Lenin: Image, Ritual, and the Cube
8. Irina Vakar: Kazimir Malevich and José Ortega-y-Gasset on the “New Art”
9. Christina Lodder: Living in Space: Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist Architecture and the Philosophy of Nikolai Fedorov
10. Adrian Barr: From Vozbuzhdenie to Oshchushchenie: Theoretical Shifts, Nova Generatsiia, and the Late Paintings
11. Linda S. Boersma: Malevich, Lissitzky, Van Doesburg: Suprematism and De Stijl
12. Éva Forgács: Malevich and Western Modernis
13. Charlotte Douglas: Malevich and De Chirico
14. James Lawrence: Back to Square One
15. Alexandra Shatskikh: Aspects of Kazimir Malevich’s Literary Legacy: a Summary
16. Irina Karasik: Extending Malevich in Russian Contemporary Art

    Notes on Contributor
    Index

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