Lazar Khidekel & suprematism
By: edited by Regina Khidekel
Contributors: Gori︠a︡cheva, T. V.
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9783791349688; 9783791365756
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Suprematism in art
Other titles: Lazar Khidekel and suprematism
Description: "The first book dedicated solely to this important member of the Russian avant-garde, this volume profiles Lazar Khidekel, a brilliant artist and architect whose career proves a key link in the story of abstraction. For decades the work of Lazar Khidekel has been undeservedly overlooked by galleries and museums--primarily because the Russian avant-garde movement was interrupted midstream and forced underground by the Soviet state. This elegantly designed book provides the perfect introduction to Khidekel's decades-long career and coincides with a recently renewed fascination with Suprematism and the development of 20th-century abstraction. A student of Chagall and Malevich, Khidekel was an artistic prodigy whose fascination with architecture led to his part in the founding of UNOVIS, or "Affirmers of the New Art." He later became a significant figure in the Suprematist movement, a distinctly Russian form of abstraction. The volume features the best examples from each phase of Khidekel's career, from his pre-Suprematist work and early architectural and eco-futuristic projects to his post-Suprematist paintings, works on paper, and architectural projects"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-216) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Research in the Plane of the Suprematist Field": Lazar Khidekel and Suprematism / Tatyana Goryacheva; title: Aero-Art, the Planetary View: Kazimir Malevich and Lazar Khidekel / Charlotte Douglas; title: Between Suprematist Utopia and Stalinist Reality: From Futurist Cities to Stalin's Pantheon / Alla Rosenfeld; title: Lazar Khidekel's Architectural Practice: Conceptions of Suprematism and Architecture / Boris Kirikov and Margarita Shtiglits; title: From the Spoon to the City / Constantin Boym; title: Lazar Khidekel and the International Context / Magdalena Dabrowski; title: Appendix. Lazar Khidekel and His Role in the Development of Suprematism: Documents from the State Institute of Artistic Culture and State Institute of Art History / Irina Karasik; title: Chronology / Regina Khidekel.