[Pervyi Tsikl Leksii, Chitannykh na Kratkosrochnykh Kursakh Dlia Uchitelei Risovaniia; Sovremennoe Iskusstvo]

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[Pervyi Tsikl Leksii, Chitannykh na Kratkosrochnykh Kursakh Dlia Uchitelei Risovaniia; Sovremennoe Iskusstvo]

Artist Kazimir Malevich (Russian, 1878-1935)

Publisher [Otdel izobrazit. iskusstva Narkomprosa, Petrograd], 1920

Author N. N. (Nikolai Nikolaevich) Punin (Russian, 1848-1952)

Date1920

Dimensionsbook: 8 1/2 x 5 5/8 in. (216 x 143mm)
page: 8 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. (216 x 137mm)

MediumOriginal prints: 2 lithographs in colors (covers) Text: letterpress Paper: cream wove paper

ClassificationBooks

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1981.1

Not on View

Label TextKazimir Malevich's drawings decorate the covers of this government publication of Nikolai Punin's lectures espousing the reform of art and its teaching. Malevich's designs reflect the Suprematist style he had pioneered. He called Suprematism "the new realism … new, objectless, pure," representing "man's ascendancy over nature." These cover designs were based on Malevich's drawings, but were not produced under the artist's supervision. The background color is foreign to his palette and the tight framing inhibits his desired effect of forms floating in an "open infinity" of white.Published Referencescf. Hogben, Carol, Rowan Watson, editors, From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists’ Illustrated Books, London, 1985, no. 47, repr.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Russian Books & Prints, Dec.19,1981-Feb.15,1982.

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Toledo Museum of Art, Between the Wars, Sept. 5-Dec.31, 2008.

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