Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935

Los Angeles and Seattle: Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center in association with the University of Washington Press, 1990. Cloth, xvi, 230 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 16 September 1990 to 4 November 1990; the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 28 November 1990 to 13 January 1991; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 7 February 1991 to 24 March 1991. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. A retrospective of the self-styled Suprematist Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), a pioneer of abstraction. CONTENTS: The Amsterdam Perspective, by W. A. L. Beeren; Chronology, by Joop M. Joosten; Malevich and his Art, 1900-1930, by Dmitrii Sarabianov; From 1/42: Autobiographical Notes, 1923-1925; Fragments from "Chapters from an Artist's Autobiography," 1933; Futurism-Suprematism, 1921: An Excerpt, by Kazimir Malevich; Malevich and the Energy of Language, by John E. Bowlt; A Study of Technique: Ten Paintings by Malevich in the Tretiakov Gallery, by Milda Vikturina and Alla Lukanova; Acquisition of Thirty-Four Malevich Paintings by Soviet Museums, 1919-21, by Natalia Avtonomova; Selected Bibliography, by John E. Bowlt.. 1st. Hardcover. NEW/NEW. 4to.