Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue ix
4. From the Author xiii
5. List of Abbreviations xvii
6. 1. The Birth of Black Square
7. Fevralism, Forerunner of Suprematism 1
8. The Rise of Suprematism 33
9. 2. On the Threshold of “0.10”, 54
10. Suprematism in Fall 1915 54
11. N. M. Davydova and Suprematism’s Public Affirmation 69
12. Russian and English Geo Metric Nonobjectivity 81
13. The First Verbovka Exhibition 85
14. The “Amazons” and Suprematism 98
15. 3. From “0.10” to “Store”
16. “0.10”: The Last Futurist Exhibition 101
17. Vladimir Tatlin’s “Store” Exhibition 123
18. “I The Apostle of New Concepts in Art . . . ,” 130
19. 4. The Supremus Society
20. 1916: Under the Sign of Supremus 136
21. The Supremus Society in the First Half of 1917 162
22. Supremus 172
23. Kazimir Malevich and Nikolai Roslavets 190
24. Aleksei Kruchenykh in Supremus 217
25. “Azef-Judas-Khlebnikov” 230
26. The Supremus Society’s Finale 240
27. 5. The End of Painting
28. Malevich’s Color-Painting in Late 1917 and the First Half of 1918 251
29. “There Can be No Question of Painting in Suprematism,” 266
30. Epilogue 272
31. Notes 275
32. Select Bibliography 317
33. Index 321