Figure 12 Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, c.¬1923–30, Musée...

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TitleBlack Square

Creator nameMalevich, Kazimir

Creator nationality/cultureRussian

Creator rolePainter

Creation datec. 1923–1930

Object typePainting

MaterialsUnknown

LocationMusée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPainting, Russian--20th centurySuprematism in artFuturism (Art)

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Chapter I

Alexander Nehamas

Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art

All beautiful things, the Greek philosopher Plotinus wrote in the third century A.D., produce “awe and a shock of delight, passionate longing, love and a shudder of rapture...

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Alexander Nehamas

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-35

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00285.1

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Chapter subject tags:AestheticsPlatoSchopenhauer, Arthur, 1788-1860Modernism (Art)Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994

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