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Dear colleagues, The Malevich Society is pleased to inform you that preliminary registration for the conference "Rethinking Malevich" is now available via mail to The Malevich Society in care of Herrick Feinstein LLP, 2 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016. The fee for the two-day conference is $ 20; $ 10 for students. The preliminary registration form can be downloaded from our website at www.malevichsociety.com, or requested by e-mail: [log in to unmask] Tickets will also be available at the door during the conference on February 6 and 7. The conference "Rethinking Malevich," organized by The Malevich Society in celebration of the 125th anniversary of Kazimir Malevich's birth, will be held on Friday and Saturday February 6-7, 2004, in the Elebash Recital Hall of The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, located at 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street in New York City. The conference promises to be an historic event, featuring presentations by an international and renowned group of scholars. Among them are leading researchers in the field from the USA, Russia, the Netherlands and New Zealand. The preliminary conference program and the abstracts of the presentations are available on The Malevich Society's web-site at www.malevichsociety.org For further information please contact the Malevich Society: [log in to unmask], 718-980-1805. CONFERENCE "RETHINKING MALEVICH” The conference “Rethinking Malevich,” organized by The Malevich Society in celebration of the 125th anniversary of Kazimir Malevich’s birth, will be held on Friday and Saturday February 6-7, 2004, in the Elebash Recital Hall of The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, located at 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street in New York City. Advanced conference registration may be made by mail to the Malevich Society. The fee for the two-day conference is $ 20; $ 10 for students. To download the preliminary registration form, please, click HERE. Tickets will also be available at the door of the conference on February 6 and 7. PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM Presentations are 30 minutes each. To read the abstracts please click on the title of each presentation. FRIDAY, February 6, 2004 REGISTRATION 9:30 am – 10:00 am MORNING SESSION 10:00 am – 1:00 pm Charlotte Douglas, President of the Malevich Society Introduction John Bowlt, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States Kazimir Malevich and Fedor Rerberg Irina Vakar, The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia Malevich and Ortega y Gasset on the New Art Discussion Break Elena Basner, Independent scholar, St.Petersburg, Russia The Early Work of Malevich and Kandinsky: A Comparative Analysis Natalia Avtonomova, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia Malevich and Kandinsky: The Choices after Non-Objectivity Discussion LUNCH BREAK 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AFTERNOON SESSION 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tatiana Goriacheva, The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia Suprematism and Constructivism: The Intersection of Parallels Linda Boersma, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Malevich and ‘The Style’ Discussion Break Myroslava M. Mudrak, The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States Malevich and his Ukrainian Contemporaries Adrian Barr, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand From ‘Vozbuzhdenie’ to ‘Oshchushchenie’: Theoretical Shifts, ‘Nova Generatsiya’, and the Late Paintings Discussion SATURDAY, February 7, 2004 MORNING SESSION 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Christina Lodder, Vice-President of The Malevich Society Introduction Pamela Kachurin, Davis Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States Malevich as Soviet Bureaucrat: Ginkhuk and the Survival of the Avant-Garde 1923-1926 Konstantin Akinsha, Independent Scholar, Washington, DC, United States The Funeral of the Revolution Discussion LUNCH BREAK 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AFTERNOON SESSION 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm James Lawrence, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States False Positives: Malevich, MoMA and Minimalism Eva Forgacs, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, United States Malevich and Western Modernism Discussion Break Irina Karasik, Art Historian, St. Petersburg, Russia Extending Malevich: Malevich as a Subject in Russian Art after WWII Alexandra Shatskikh, Independent Scholar, Moscow, Russia Features of Kazimir Malevich’s Literary Legacy: a Summary Discussion RECEPTION 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Reception will be held in the lobby of Elebash Recital Hall, the location of the conference.