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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Malevich"”.
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Kazimir Malevic and architectons as monument : on looking at early modernism
Kazimir Malevich and the Architectons as Monuments: Looking at Early Modernism examines Malevich' s 1919-1932 artistic exploration, architectons. Conventionally understood as early modern avant-garde art objects or as blueprints for a new urbanism, this thesis explores their function as monuments …
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Cherokee Abstract Artist Leon Polk Smith: A Convergence of Traditions
… avant-garde works by Piet Mondrian and Kashmir Malevich serve as a contemporary vantage point. This parallel places Polk Smith at a convergence of traditions.</p>
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Following The Black Square: The Cosmic, The Nostalgic & The Transformative In Russian Avant-Garde Museology
… avant-garde artist and museologist Kazimir Malevich acts as the ‘tether’ binding the museologies of the past and present together, his famous “Black Square” a recurring visual and metaphoric indicator of the inspiration that contemporary Russian avant-garde museology and art is taking from …
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Art as a narrative of alterity.
… works of Fra Angelico, Pollock, Fantin-Latour, Malevich, Vermeer, and Saitowitz; and Alterity in my own art practice through a set of six sculptures.
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Incandescent molecules: An analytical investigation into materiality in contemporary abstract painting
… painting across the twentieth century, from Malevich to Nozkowski, and subsequently looked at contemporary New Zealand practice. This analysis secured my work within the genres of neo-casualism and new materiality. New materiality accepts that all matter, whether substance or object, has …
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Malevich’s Post-Suprematist Paintings and the Construction of History
<p>This dissertation discusses Kazimir Malevich’s post-abstract, post-suprematist figurative work by drawing upon semiotic and post-structuralist theories, addressing questions such as: Why did Malevich return to painting figures after adamantly abandoning them for pure abstraction? How do these …
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Wartime Art and Temporality in the Russian and Soviet Avant-Gardes, 1914–1928
… of the First Division </em>by Kazimir Malevich. The dissertation turns to an exploration of the recurrent motifs of war and violence in the 1913 futurist opera <em>Victory over the Sun </em>and its agitprop restagings in 1920 and 1923 through the Civil War and communist contexts. I …
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The Aesthetics of Censorship and the Russian Avant-Garde: Abstraction Beyond Art
… has already considered the way artists such as Malevich, Rodchenko and Stepanova blurred the binaries between art and vandalism, construction and deconstruction in their work, this analysis has not yet extended to consider their engagement with institutions of censorship to its full extent. This …
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Life Between Two Panels: Soviet Nonconformism in the Cold War Era
… work of Russian avant-garde artists like Kazimir Malevich. I look at how Vassiliev, in a search for an alternative form of expression to the mandated form of art, took up the legacy of nineteenth-century Realism, avant-garde abstraction, and Socialist Realism. From there, I investigate issues of …
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For Tomorrow They Will Not Recognize Us: The American Reception of Soviet Leftist Art
In this thesis, I take a historiographic approach to the reception of Soviet leftist art of the early 20th century in the United States. I explore the ways that Soviet movements like Suprematism and Constructivism were appropriated as a vehicle for political meaning by American institutions and the …