Andrei Nakov
Andrei Nakov, born in 1941 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a French-Bulgarian art historian engaged principally in research on Russian non-objective art, Cubo-futurism, Dada and Constructivism, where his work as a precursor in these areas gained him an authoritative reputation.
He has published numerous theoretical studies, monographs and exhibition catalogues on the Russian avant-garde, Futurism, Dada, Constructivism, contemporary art and European abstract art.
Since the publication of his critical edition of the writings of Malewicz by Champ Libre, Paris 1975, he has engaged in research on the work of this artist and has published the four-volume Kazimir Malewicz le peintre absolu in April 2007. Part of this work's documentation comprising the catalogue raisonné of the artist's plastic work was published in 2002 under the title Kazimir Malewicz, Catalogue raisonné. In January 2016, for the fifth consecutive year Andrei Nakov gets Moral Rights over the work of Alexandra Exter.Monographic studies
- Alexandra Exter
- Papazoff : Franc-tireur du surréalisme
- 2 Stenberg 2
- Nina Kogan
- Alexandre Bogomazov
- Kazimir Malewicz, Catalogue raisonné, Éditions Adam Biro
- Malévitch : Aux avant-gardes de l'art moderne, coll. Découvertes Gallimard
- Kazimir Malewicz, le peintre absolu, Thalia Édition
- Kandinsky, the Enigma of the first abstract painting, IRSA Publishing
Critical translations of Russian theoretical texts
- Nikolai Taraboukine, Le Dernier Tableau presented by Andrei B. Nakov, translated by Michel Pétris and André B. Nakov
- Malévitch, Écrits, Champ Libre, 1975 et 1986
- Victor Chklovski, Résurrection du Mot
- Nemours au Prieuré de Salagon
Thematic works
- Abstrait/Concret : Art non-objectif russe et polonais - Édition française
- Abstrait/Concret : Art non-objectif russe et polonais - Édition russe
- L'avant-garde russe - Édition française
- L'avant-garde russe - Édition russe éd. Iskusstvo, Moscou, 1991
Exhibition catalogues
- Tatlin's Dream
- Russian Constructivism, the Laboratory Period
- Kasimir Malevich
- The Suprematist straight line
- Liberated Colour and Form
- The First Russian Show
- Dada-Constructivism : The Janus Face of the twenties
- Mikhail Larionov
- Dada and Constructivism - Édition anglaise