Vlasimir Tatlin and the Russian Avant-Garde

Traces the life and career of the Russian constructivist artist, examines his paintings, sculpture, and costume designs, and looks at the Russian art world during the early part of this century

Vladimir Tatlin and the Russian Avant-Garde

John Milner

Arts & Photography

Yale University Press

Traces the life and career of the Russian constructivist artist, examines his paintings, sculpture, and costume designs, and looks at the Russian art world during the early part of this century

Photography & Video

During 1915, in the midst of the war years that preceded the Russian Revolution, Kazimir Malevich devised and displayed a completely unprecedented geometric style of painting that he called Suprematism. By the 1920s, geometric art had become an international phenomenon. John Milner examines Malevich's art of geometry by looking at its sources of inspiration, its methods and its meanings and, arguing persuasively that it is based on obsolete Russian units of measurement rather than the decimal system, has found a new interpretative tool with which to understand this pioneering art.Milner describes Malevich's early work (pointing out his sensitivity to Russian and West European art, with their diverse traditions of depicting time and space) alongside contemporary developments in physics and mathematics, including theories such as that of the fourth dimension. He closely examines Malevich's designs for the 1913 futurist opera Victory over the Sun, the first major public manifestation of the artist's remarkable synthesis of proportion, perspective, mathematics, and futurist imagery.Malevich's subsequent display of Suprematist paintings, in 1915, was based on an elaborate system of space and proportion which even determined the actual hanging of the exhibition. Milner shows that his proportional system derived from the ancient Russian units of the arshin and the vershok. Sixteen vershok make one arshin, and one arshin is equal to 71.12cm. Malevich, along with his contemporaries, was drawing upon both traditional and modern mathematical theory to create some of the most influential, coherent and dynamic non-objective paintings of this century.

Kazimir Malevich and the Art of Geometry

Biographies & Memoirs

And Yet... : A Mix - Essays, Poems, Confession Paperback

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England, During the Middle Ages: With Ten Illustrative PlatesThe subject of the present Treatise has given rise to so much and such earnest debate among the learned and ingenious, and has occasioned so many pubhcations, and such a variety of systems concerning it, as cannot fail of exciting the wonder of persons insensible to the grandeur and beauty of Pointed Architecture, and unacquainted with the merit of its invention.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Treatise on the Ecclesiastical Architecture of England, During the Middle Ages: With Ten Illustrative Plates (Classic Reprint)

Architecture

Forgotten Books

A study of the work of artist Piet Mondrian. It examines his working process, through his drawings, studies and finished paintings, and explores the tension between the disciplined compositions and their underlying subject matter.

Mondrian (Geography of the World-Economy)

Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.

Rails Through The Sand - The Story of the Fairbourne Miniature Railway 1916-1985 Including the Barmouth Junction & Arthog Tramways

RailRomances

Light wear to dust jacket. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Slates from Glyn Ceiriog (The Industrial History of the Ceiriog Valley)

History

Europe

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