Nikolai Suetin 1897 – 1954
St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2008 (2nd revised ed.). sewn cl., This catalogue of the Ruyssian Museum exhibition publishes works from the museum and from private collection to give a sense of the extraordinary varied career of Malevich's student Nikolai Suetin. Devoted to Malevich Suetine remained a stalwart suprematist when avant-garde art became controversial and even seditious. Samples of his correspondence published here revives the excitement and controversy of the 1920s and 1930s, when the most basic questions about the meaning and methods of art were being asked. Suetin like many other artists of the age sought to efface boundaries between genres and was adept at drawing, watercolor; designs for architecture, book jackets, posters, furniture, fabrics, and porcelain (for many years he was chief painter at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in Leningrad); organizing exhibition space. The works illustrated here—paintings, such as portraits, cubist works on rural subjects, and brilliant arrays of geometric forms, maquettes of the Soviet pavilions at the Paris (1937) and New York (1939) world expositions, porcelain from the 1920s to the 1950s—show Suetin as both a gifted and a shrewd artist who managed to work creatively even in the worst Stalinist years. Archival photos convey a sense of the period and Suetin’s collaboration with Malevich and others. Section headings: Painting, Drawing and Watercolorss, Design of Vitebsk Decoration; Book covrs; Poster art, Architectural projects; furniture design;Sketches for porcelain and works of porcelain.; 287 pp., 32 cm, 113 b-&-w illus., 224 color, ENGLISH. Item #477
ISBN: 9783940761002
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