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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Softcover. German. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> One of the most influential and far-reaching achievements of the artists of the Russian avant-garde was their isolation of and investigation into the intrinsic elements of the work of art. In painting for example artists such as Kliun Popova and Rodchenko explored the essential forces of color texture line they purified them of associative connotations and attained unprecedented conclusions as in Kliun’s Supre-matism Popova’s architectonic compositions and Rod-chenko’s linear structures. These were models of true painting non-figurative and non-representational. They were more austere even more “painterly than the often ambiguous works of Kandinsky and Malevich. Although these two artists said much in defense of abstraction they seemed often to be too interested in cosmic philosophies to remain mere painters. Their subjectivity their religiosity should not detract from the stature of these masters but if we are to discover and analyze the purest systems operative within Russian non-objective art then we should look promanity to Exter Kitun Popova Rod chenko. Together with their colleagues such as Chashnik. Lissitzky and Matyushin these artists formed a particular faction within the Russian avant-garde and countered. (SP)