Lazar Khidekel and Suprematism
Regina Khidekel, with contributions by Constantin Boym, Magdalena Dabrowski, Charlotte Douglas, Tatyana Goryacheva, Irina Karasik, Boris Kirikov and Margarita Shtiglits, and Alla Rosenfeld
256 pages with 250 illustrations
Hardcover
9 ½ x 11 ¾ in.
$75
ISBN: 978-3-7913-4968-8
Publication Date: November 2014
Published in association with Modernism Inc., San Francisco.
The first book dedicated solely to this important member of the Russian avant-garde, this volume profiles Lazar Khidekel, a brilliant artist and architect whose career proves a key link in the story of abstraction.
For decades the work of Lazar Khidekel has been undeservedly overlooked by galleries and museums—primarily because the Russian avant-garde movement was interrupted midstream and forced underground by the Soviet state. This elegantly designed book provides the perfect introduction to Khidekel’s decades-long career and coincides with a recently renewed fascination with Suprematism and the development of 20th-century abstraction. A student of Chagall and Malevich, Khidekel was an artistic prodigy whose fascination with architecture led to his part in the founding of UNOVIS, or “Affirmers of the New Art.” He later became a significant figure in the Suprematist movement, a distinctly Russian form of abstraction. The volume features the best examples from each phase of Khidekel’s career, from his pre-Suprematist work and early architectural and eco-futuristic projects to his post-Suprematist paintings, works on paper, and architectural projects.
About the Author:
Regina Khidekel is President of the Lazar Khidekel Society, a group of art historians, museum specialists, and art supporters working to sustain and preserve Khidekel’s legacy. An experienced art critic and an expert on Russian and Jewish 20th-century art, she is also the founder of the Russian American Cultural Center in New York. She is the author of the best-selling book ‘It’s the Real Thing’ Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art (1998, University of Minnesota Press).
