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| | BOOKFORUM | winter 2003 |
 | | The facts are well known: Malevich constantly meddled with dates, starting with the birth of Suprematism, which he always insisted, contrary to all evidence, on placing at 1913 (Suprematist paintings were first publicly presented in Petrograd at the historical exhibition "0,10" in December 1915). |
 | | Since then, Malevich's constant, deliberate affront to the rationality of geometry has become a staple of the Malevich literature (to the point that when a drawing is too neatly geometric, it is enough for Nakov, in his catalogue raisonné, to discard it as produced by one of his pupils, Lissitzky, for example). |
 | | To state it briefly, Malevich's conception of cinema rests on a kind of pictorial imperialism that was rather common among the pioneers of abstract art (one finds the same mechanism at work in Mondrian's apology for planarity in architecture or sculpture). |
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