Dovremmo aver paura del “Quadrato nero”?

Kazimir Malevich’s famous Black Square (1915) can be considered the emblem of the Russian avantgarde in its First historical phase; its poetic equivalent is the cubo-futurists’ zaum’. The purity of form in the ‘objectless’ representation appeared then as the premise of a new perception of the world...

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Main Author: Jean-Philippe Jaccard
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Language:Belarusian
Published: Aracne editrice 2023-01-01
Series:eSamizdat
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Online Access:https://www.esamizdat.it/ojs/index.php/eS/article/view/156
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description Kazimir Malevich’s famous Black Square (1915) can be considered the emblem of the Russian avantgarde in its First historical phase; its poetic equivalent is the cubo-futurists’ zaum’. The purity of form in the ‘objectless’ representation appeared then as the premise of a new perception of the world and of its possible reconstruction from zero with infinite potential. The work of Daniil Kharms is fully in line with this utopian tradition but will gradually come to show its limits and dangers. In the thirties his work articulates the threat that nothingness poses to the original purity, when ‘void’ [pustota] rhymes with ‘purity’ [chistota].
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spelling doaj.art-9b4531467eda4f4d87925febd67e146d2023-02-08T13:54:29ZbelAracne editriceeSamizdat1723-40422023-01-01153947173Dovremmo aver paura del “Quadrato nero”?Jean-Philippe Jaccard0University of GenevaKazimir Malevich’s famous Black Square (1915) can be considered the emblem of the Russian avantgarde in its First historical phase; its poetic equivalent is the cubo-futurists’ zaum’. The purity of form in the ‘objectless’ representation appeared then as the premise of a new perception of the world and of its possible reconstruction from zero with infinite potential. The work of Daniil Kharms is fully in line with this utopian tradition but will gradually come to show its limits and dangers. In the thirties his work articulates the threat that nothingness poses to the original purity, when ‘void’ [pustota] rhymes with ‘purity’ [chistota].https://www.esamizdat.it/ojs/index.php/eS/article/view/156russian avant-gardesuprematismliterature of the absurdmalevichkharms
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Dovremmo aver paura del “Quadrato nero”?
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russian avant-garde
suprematism
literature of the absurd
malevich
kharms
title Dovremmo aver paura del “Quadrato nero”?
title_full Dovremmo aver paura del “Quadrato nero”?
title_fullStr Dovremmo aver paura del “Quadrato nero”?
title_full_unstemmed Dovremmo aver paura del “Quadrato nero”?
title_short Dovremmo aver paura del “Quadrato nero”?
title_sort dovremmo aver paura del quadrato nero
topic russian avant-garde
suprematism
literature of the absurd
malevich
kharms
url https://www.esamizdat.it/ojs/index.php/eS/article/view/156
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