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Patricia Railing has published widely on the Russian Avant-Garde. She is $IRECTOR OF !RTISTS s "OOKWORKS THAT PUBLISHES REPRINTS OF EARLY TH CENTURY artists’ books and writings, as well as studies on the Russian Avant-Garde. Her Alexandra Exter Paints appeared in October 2011 and her doctoral thesis, Kazimir Malevich – Suprematism as Pure Sensation (Université de Paris 1 – Sorbonne, Philosophy of Art) will soon appear under the title, Malevich Paints – The Seeing Eye.

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InCoRM Journal Vol. 3 Spring-Autumn UÊ2012 Exhibition of the Art of the Epoch of Capitalism “Bourgeois art is at the dead end of the Formalism of Self Negation” Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, November 1931-February 1932 Top row, left to right: V. Kandinsky, Overcast, 1917; A. Rodchenko, Composition No. 64/84 (Abstraction of Colour: 46 Elimination of the Density of Colour), 1918 Bottom row, left to right: K. Malevich, Supremus No. 57, 1916, K. Malevich, Black Square, 1915 On the right: I. Kliun, The Musician, 1917

Exhibition of the Art of the Epoch of Capitalism “The attempt at the artistic method of objectivisation is unattainable because bourgeois art is individualistic through and through.” Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, November 1931-February 1932 Top row, left to right: V. Tatlin, The Fishmonger, 1911 Middle row: K. Malevich, Reaper, c. 1928 Bottom row: N. Udaltsova, Self Portrait with Palette, 1915

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