In 1927, Kazimir Malevich (1879-1935)--the creator of the modernist icon "Black Square on a White Ground"--published "The World as Objectlessness," his vision of a "world of non-representation," through the Bauhaus publishing arm. For a long time this book was Malevich's only publication in a Wester[...]

This lavishly illustrated publication sheds new light on Malevich's remarkable career, from his participation in the quest for a new society to his confrontation with the Stalinist regime. Telling a fascinating story about the dream of a new social order, the successes and pitfalls of revolutionary [...]

Square, cross, circle...What is their secret attraction? What is it that has made people stare intently, for nearly a century, at what seem to be nothing more than simple geometric figures? Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) understood the previously incomprehensible, dared to subject the unsubjected to a[...]