The Additional Element in Architecture by Paulina Bitran (Paperback Book)
An ingenious reconstructionand revealing analysis through visual archaeologyof avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich's lost arkhitektons. Among the Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevichs most intriguing works, the arkhitektons are also the most enigmatic, as these quasi-architectural sculptures made between 1920 and 1930 were almost entirely lost, along with many of the accompanying drawings, or planits. In The Additional Element in Architecture, Pedro Ignacio Alonso and Paulina Bitraìn bring Malevichs elusive arkhitektons to startling, three-dimensional life and show how these objects form a comprehensive universe that embodies the artists Suprematismhis belief in the supremacy of pure artistic sensation in abstraction.
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