Main entry:

Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935, artist, author.

Title & Author:

Kazimir Malevich : the world as objectlessness / with essays by Simon Baier and Britta Tanja Dümpelmann and a new translation of Kazimir Malevich's text The world as objectlessness ; [translations, Antonina W. Bouis ... and three others.].

Publication:

Basel : Kunstmuseum Basel ; Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2014.
©2014

Description:

216 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Mar. 1-June 22, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references.
The world as objectlessness : a snapshop of an artistic universe / Britta Tanja Dümpelmann ; Economy and excess : Malevich and the survival of painting / Simon Baier ; Catalogue ; Malevich's Mir kak bezpredmetnost in the new German and English translations ; The world as objectlessness / Kazimir Malevich ; Two autograph manuscripts by Kazimir Malevich within the context of the Bauhaus book.

Summary:

In 1927, Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)--the creator of the modernist icon Black Square on a White Ground --published The World as Objectlessness, his vision of a world of non-representation, through the Bauhaus publishing arm. For a long time this book was Malevich's only publication in a Western language, and the title then, somewhat imprecisely translated, was Die gegenstandslose Welt (The Non-Objective World). Malevich described his theory as the supremacy of pure feeling or perception in the pictorial arts, and emphasized the feeling of a work, rather than the depiction of objects, advancing a philosophy that was both anti-material and non-utilitarian, focusing on geometric forms--lines, squares and circles--within a limited chromatic range. This volume offers a new translation of the artist's illustrated text, along with important research on the preliminary drawings made for the Bauhaus publication, which are now in the possession of the Kunstmuseum Basel. The intensive research on these works of art provides new insights into the history of this creation: when and where were the illustrations done, and what stage in Malevich's artistic development do they reflect? Malevich's The World as Objectlessness is a snapshot of a moment in a boundless artistic universe.

ISBN:

9783775737319 (English edition ; cl.)
3775737316 (English edition ; cl.)

Subject:

Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935 Exhibitions.
Malevich, Kazimir Severinovich, 1878-1935.
Suprematism in art Exhibitions.
Suprématisme Expositions.
Suprematism in art

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Added entries:

Baier, Simon, contributor.
Dümpelmann, Britta, contributor.
Bouis, Antonina W., translator.
Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel.

World as objectlessness

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286515
Call No.: BIB 226893
Status: Available