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Malewitschs »Letzte Futuristische Ausstellung ›0,10‹« in St. Petersburg 1915 oder die Paradoxien des fotografischen Suprematismus. Die medialen Voraussetzungen des autonomen Bildes


Autor: Norbert M. Schmitz
[erschienen in: Image 18: Bild und Moderne (Ausgabe Juli 2013)]


On the basis of Kazimer Malevich's legendary photo of the »Last Futurist Ex-hibition« in 1915 the text describes the paradoxes of suprematistic aesthetics which on the one hand states the annulment of classical mimesis and, on the other hand, uses it just the same by means of photographic representation for propagandistic services. The essay compares some classical works of Suprematism with their photographic documentation from book reproduc-tions via historical exhibition documentations to Malevich's selfstagings as a photographic icon. Refering to the contradiction lying in a photo-realistic re-cording of a suprematistic picture which claims to surpass photographic illu-sionism the essay confronts the aesthetics of romantically prejudiced propo-nents of a radical »Gegenstandslosigkeit« with concrete considerations of-fered by »Gestalt« psychology and perceptional psychology within the mean-ing of »biological constructivism«. The text analyses the quest for an ontolog-ical truth as a universal claim and legitimization strategy of artists compared with a more modern art epistemology which is rather functional and prag-matical oriented, entertains a more critical approach to describing the status of pictures, and reflects the fragility of visual knowledge.


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IMAGE 18_Schmitz.pdf