Malevich's sudden and startling realization of a non-objective way of painting - which he termed Suprematism - stands as a seminal moment in the history of twentieth-century art.Rainer Crone and David Moos trace the artist's development from his beginnings in the Ukraine and early years in Moscow - where he was closely involved in the Futurist circle - through to the late 1920s and beyond. The authors of this book convincingly demonstrate that it is only through a close and sustained reading of Malevich's late - and still widely misunderstood - painterly "oeuvre" that his extraordinarily inventive stance can truly be comprehended.Crone and Moos trace the close relationship between Malevich's practice and other contemporary non-political revolutions in physics, linguistics and poetry. They present Malevich as a uniquely creative artist, embodying in his work many of the insights and discoveries that define the twentieth century and the condition of modern life.