Public Display as Historiography: Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin’s Exhibitions in the Soviet Union, 1929-1933

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Abstract

This paper will examine public display as an important framework through which artists sought to advocate their principles and shape the reception and historicization of their work. It will consider such an activity by two key avant-garde figures, Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin, who held exhibitions in Moscow and Kyiv between 1929 and 1933, resisting the ongoing displacement of their legacy from the public sphere of the increasingly authoritarian USSR.

Author

• Masha Chlenova, The New School