Suprematist Embroidered Ornament
1995; College Art Association; Volume: 54; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043249.1995.10791675
ISSN2325-5307
Autores Tópico(s)Visual Culture and Art Theory
ResumoIn the winter of 1917, a few weeks after the Bolsheviks had taken Moscow in several days of fierce street fighting, the Second Modern Decorative Arts Exhibition opened at the Mikhailova Salon in the center of the city. On display were four hundred works designed by sixteen artists, sewn and embroidered by peasant women of the Ukrainian town of Verbovka.1 Kazimir Malevich, Alexandra Exter, Olga Rozanova, Liubov Popova, and other members of the artistic avant-garde exhibited ornamented handbags, belts, collars, pillows, and lengths of embroidered fabric. Many of the designs were Suprematist in style, related to the geometric abstraction developed by Malevich two years earlier. One of the many visitors to this popular exhibition was the American theater critic Oliver M. Sayler, who was in Moscow gathering material for books on Russia. Sayler had his camera with him and took seventeen photographs of the show; six of these photographs, previously unpublished, are presented here.2
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