Mnemonics of Difference: Kazimir Malevich and Visual Parody (1907-1913)

Since about the middle of the nineteenth century, a specter has haunted the European mass media entertainment market: the caricature of art, or visual parody. Originating in the pages of satirical magazines, it was initially intended to provoke laughter among the readers, but it quickly evolved into a new form of pictorial criticism by artists toward or against other artists. The thesis of this book is that in the cultural context of late imperial Russia, visual parody moved from the periph...