
Malevich and Interwar Modernism
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It is unusual to discuss interwar modernism and its postwar survival, but this book's chapters work together to argue that the interwar developments signified a turning point in twentieth-century art that led to much creativity and innovation. Forgács supports her theory with newly found and newly interpreted documents that prove how this exciting legacy was shaped by three major agents: Malevich, Lissitzsky and van Doesburg. She offers a wider interpretation of modernism that examines its postwar significance, reception and history up until the emergence of the New Left in 1956 and the seismic events of 1968.
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Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The sky is the limit: Malevich at the Vitebsk junction, 1919
2. The 8th Congress of the Bolshevik Party and El Lissitzky's grasp of suprematism, 1919
3. Theo van Doesburg, artist and strategist
4. The irreconcilable conflict between constructivism and suprematism in Moscow
5. The Mirage of world revolution: Post-revolution, postwar Berlin and Moscow 1918-1922
6. As many narratives as narrators: Russian accounts of the new Russian art in the west
7. The First Russian Exhibition in Berlin, 1922, and its reception
8. Respectfully challenging the master: Lissitzky and Malevich
9. The book that was not. Van Doesburg's thumbs-down on the Malevich volume
10. The book that was not. Van Doesburg's thumbs-down on the Malevich volume
11. The Postwar Scene and The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam's Malevich exhibition, 1957
12. The New Left's role in retrieving the interwar avant-gardes and reclaiming the Russian Avant-Garde in the 1960s
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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