[Pobeda nad Solntsem]

Artist David Burlyuk (Ukrainian, 1882-1967)

Artist Kazimir Malevich (Russian, 1878-1935)

Publisher ["EUY," St. Petersburg, Russia, 1913]

Author M. V. Matiushin (Russian, 1861-1934)

Author M. V. Matiushin [music] (Russian, 1861--1934)

Date[1913]

Dimensionsbook: 9 5/8 x 6 5/8 in. (244 x 168mm)
page: 9 5/8 x 6 3/4 in. (244 x 172mm)

MediumReproductions: photolithograph of a lithograph? (front cover, Malevich) and of a woodcut (back cover, Burliuk) Text: letterpress typographic design, incl. 2 pages of music Paper: ivory wove paper

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1981.6

Not on View

Label TextThis opera, first staged in Saint Petersburg in December 1913, was the collaboration between poets Kruchenykh and Khlebnikov, composer Matiushin, and painter Malevich. The texts and music were published with a reproduction of one of Malevich’s set designs on the cover. Composed of alogical phrases laced with invented words, the story concerns a group of aviator-strongmen who succeed at the conquest and eclipse of the sun, marking the end of reason and traditional values, but also voicing the hope, said Matiushin, of “an end to future wars.”Published ReferencesKarshan, Donald H., Malevich: the Graphic Work, 1913-1930: a print catalogue raisonne, Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1975, cat. 15Exhibition HistoryTMA show: Russia After the Czars, 1/23/97 - 3/30/97 TMA Russian Books & Prints: Dec.19,1981 - Feb.15,1982 Between the Wars; Sept. 5 2008 through Dec.31 2008