Russian Avant-Garde. Evgueny Kovtun

Cast Down. Art, Church, Factory, Vitebsk, 1922, p.7.

11

Sub-heading of Malevich’s brochure ‘From Cubism to Suprematism’, published in 1915.

12

V. Shklovsky, ‘Space in Art and the Suprematists’, Jizn Iskousstva, 1919, No. 196–197.

13

Izobrazitelnoie Iskusstvo, 1919, No. 1, p.28.

14

A. Mayakovsky, Collection, Leningrad, 1940, p.90.

15

V. Shklovsky, ‘A Case at the production’, Stroika, 1931, No.11.

16

N. Punin, ‘In Moscow (Letter)’, Iskusstvo Kommuny, 9th February 1919.

17

The ‘Reliefs of superior type’, contrary to ordinary reliefs, are ‘non-objective’ constructions in volume, made in various materials.

18

V. Tatlin, ‘I reply to the Letter to the Futurists’, Anarkhia, 29th March 1918.

19

N. Punin, Art and the Revolution, unpublished memoirs, 1930s, Punin family Archives, St Petersburg.

20

W. Kandinsky, Letter to N. Kulbin of 28th March 1912, Monuments of culture. New discoveries, Leningrad, 1981, p.408.

21

Ibid., p.401.

22

W. Kandinsky, Text by the artist, Moscow, 1918, p.28.

23

Nikolai Fiodorovich Fedorov (1828–1903) – librarian of the Roumiantsev Museum in Moscow, philosopher whose original ideas were very appreciated by Tolstoi, Dostoyevsky and V. Soloviov. His work was published posthumously by his followers under the title The Philosophy of the Common Work (Vol. I., Vierny, 1906; vol. 2, Moscow, 1913).

24

The Philosophy of the Common Work, vol. 1, p.293.

25

Op. cit., vol. 2, p.350.

26

Op. cit., vol. 1, p.293.

27

Iskusstvo Kommuny, 22nd December 1918.

28

A. Efros, Profiles, Moscow, 1930, p.201.

29

‘Russian exhibition in Berlin. Extract of the conversation with D. Sterenberg’, Zrelichtcha, No. 19, 1923, p.15.

30

P. Mansurov. Letter to E. Kovtun of 3rd August 1970, E. Kovtun’s Archives, St Petersburg.

31

K. Malevich, Suprematism. 34 Drawings, Vitebsk, 1920, p.4.

32

M. Matiushin, The Creative Path of the Artist, 1934, Directory of the Manuscripts Department of the Pushkin House, f.656.

33

E. Guro, The Poor Knight, 1913, Manuscripts Department of the Russian National Library, St Petersburg, f.1116, inv. 3, f.48.