Hailed as a brilliant theoretician, Voldemars Matvejs (best known by his pen name Vladimir Markov) was a Latvian artist who spearheaded the Union of Youth, a dynamic group championing artistic change in Russia, 1910-#x96;14. His work had a formative impact on Malevich, Tatlin, a…
1. Introduction to Matvejs, Markov, and 'primitivism' / Z.S. Strother, Irena Buzinska, and Jeremy Howard -- 2. 'The treasure-house of world beauty' : Markov and Russian primitivism writ large / Jeremy Howard -- 3. Markov's development as a theoretician / Irena Buzinska, translat…
Hailed as a brilliant theoretician, Voldemars Matvejs (best known by his pen name Vladimir Markov) was a Latvian artist who spearheaded the Union of Youth, a dynamic group championing artistic change in Russia, 1910-#x96;14. His work had a formative impact on Malevich, Tatlin, a…
Hailed as a brilliant theoretician, Voldemars Matvejs (best known by his pen name Vladimir Markov) was a Latvian artist who spearheaded the Union of Youth, a dynamic group championing artistic change in Russia, 1910–14. His work had a formative impact on Malevich, Tatlin, a…
This volume introduces the Latvian artist and champion of artistic change in early twentieth-century Russia, Voldemars Matvejs (Vladimir Markov), as a pioneering art photographer and assembles for the first time five of his most important essays. This book challenges hardening n…
Part 1: Critical essays by Howard, Bužinska and Strother -- Part 2: Translations of Markov's essays by Jeremy Howard.
