Excerpts from The Believer: Resurrector: Black Square
Excerpts from The Believer: Resurrector: Black Square “Gallery-goers might have been outraged not only because of the work’s simplicity—it is a 79.5-centimeter-square canvas bordered thickly in gray and white, filled in with black paint—but because it was not even a square.” - - -
A rotating guest column in which writers reexamine critically unacclaimed works of art - - -
In 1915, long before the r...