The creative explosion that coincided with the Russian Revolution was once modern art’s best kept secret. Not any more. Kazimir Malevich’s The Black Square – simply a black square – now rivals Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon as the most influential painting of the 20th century, while Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky’s graphics have been endlessly pastiched by everything from fashion magazines to indie-rock album covers.
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