Malevich

Author(s): Douglas, Charlotte Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Format: Hardcover List Price:  Rs. 1,213 Category: History ISBN-10: 0810936453 Language: English Pages: N/A Dimensions: 12.32" l x 9.28" w x 0.70" h

Overview:

Under tsarist as well as Communist rulers' Malevich often worked in a coded language' as Charlotte Douglas' the leading American authority on Malevich's work' explains in this revealing new book. She shows how Malevich used icons and church figures in sometimes irreverent' sometimes deeply reverent' contexts. Despite factional disputes with his colleagues and the desperate privations that Malevich and his family had to endure' he managed to forge an oeuvre of brilliantly coloristic work' from his early Symbolist self-portraits' experimental city paintings' and monumental peasant works of the 1900s to the astonishing abstractions of the 1910s and early 1920s.