Oil on linen. A black square with white border painted on a square canvas. Etched into the black paint of the square are the words: “What we want is no one fighting in any place or at any time and we will take steps to ensure an anti-racist future, a future where discrimination does not exist.”
And so what will I do next?
Resource List:
Dunne, Carey (2016) Art Historians Find Racist Joke Hidden Under Malevich’s “Black Square”. Available at: https://hyperallergic.com/253361/art-historian-finds-racist-joke-hidden-under-malevichs-black-square/.
Grovier, Kelly (2018) The racist message hidden in a masterpiece. Available at: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180312-the-racist-message-hidden-in-a-masterpiece (Accessed: 1st April 2023).
Shatskikh, Aleksandra (2017) Inscribed Vandalism: The Black Square at One Hundred. Available at: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/155475/inscribed-vandalism-the-black-square-at-one-hundred/ (Accessed: 30th March 2023).
Spira, Andrew (2022) Precedents of the Unprecedented: Black Squares Before Malevich. Available at: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/black-squares-before-malevich/ (Accessed: 31st March 2023).
Tolstaya, Tatyana (2015) The Square. Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-square (Accessed: 21st February 2024).
Vakar, Irina (2019) New Information Concerning The Black Square in Lodder, Christina (2019) Celebrating Suprematism : New Approaches to the Art of Kazimir Malevich. Available at: https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzE5MjM5ODRfX0FO0?sid=06827ef3-d2a0-45f7-a118-ea34aa1fcade@redis&vid=5&format=EB&lpid=lp_11&rid=0 (Accessed: 31st March 2023).
von Zinnenburg Carroll, Khadija and Gusejnova, Dina (2017) Malevich’s Black Square under X-ray: A dialogue on race, revolution and art history. Available at: http://www.thirdtext.org/malevich-blacksquare (Accessed: 30th March 2023).
Wikipedia page before Pencil inscriptions section was removed: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Square&oldid=1218618957 (Accessed: 15th July 2024).
