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C/A/17. Malevich's 'Black Square' and Russian Art

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1600
DATE:
2008
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19.99 GBP

The paper looks at the 'Suprematist' works of the Russian painter Kasimir Malevich focusing on his notorious painting, the Black Square, a Cubist symbol of the early 20th century movement against traditional art known as Avant-Garde. Interpretations of the Black Square are reviewed discussing it from philosophical, social and artistic perspectives.

 

KEYWORDS: Malevich, Black Square, Russian art, cubism, Avant-Garde, modernism,

 
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