Contents: Volume 1: Foreword, Heroic Overture; 1 From Kursk to Moscow: The growth of a vocation; 2 Impressionism Impressionist fervor: ""Operations concerning light""; 3 Symbolism ""The quest for the great cosmogonic myth""; 4 Expressionism Colors igniting in the painter's mind; 5 A ""heroic aesthetic""; 6 Cubism The ""significant volume""; 7 Futurism ""The new rhythm""; 8 Cubo-Futurism ""Stripping away the banal appearance of things""; 9 A reply to Futurism: ""Changing quantity into quality""; 10 Transrationalism ""On the threshold of a new spring"": The revolution of Victory over the Sun; 11 ""Planes are appearing""; 12 The Alogist revolution ""Casting off the luggage of wisdom"". Volume 2: 13 The dawn of Suprematism: The transition to ""purely painterly"" works; 14 Suprematism 1 The square, a ""gateway to revelation""; 15 The 0.10 exhibition: Escaping from the ""circle of things""; 16 Suprematism 2 ""Forms must be given life""; 17 Suprematism 3 ""Studying evanescent forces""; 18 Suprematism's impossible conquest of Moscow 19 Suprematism 4 A ""philosophical color system""; 20 Suprematism 5 ""The doctrine of the barren space""; 21 Prometheus assailed, or the difficulty of ""bestowing spiritual gifts on one's contemporaries""; 22 Suprematism 6 The crux of Suprematist painting after 1919; 23 The barometer of incomprehension. Volume 3: 24 Conquering volumes: ""Absolute architectonics devoid of any material utility""; 25 ""Scanning the world from the pinnacle of art""; 26 Returning to shadows: A European repute and inner exile; 27 The quest for the ""new image of man""; 28 Silent painting; 29 Ora pro nobis Domine. Volume 4: 30 A life of creation: A biographical survey; 31 Techniques, style and execution: The professionalism of Malewicz's practice of painting; Addendum and corrections to the Catalogue Raisonne; Bibliography; Index.
