Komar and Melamid : A Lesson in History by R. Storr (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
- PublisherHirmer Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-103777441090
- ISBN-139783777441092
- eBay Product ID (ePID)16058369663
Product Key Features
- Book TitleKomar and Melamid : a Lesson in History
- Number of Pages288 Pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication Year2023
- TopicIndividual Artists / General, General
- IllustratorYes
- GenreArt
- AuthorR. Storr
- FormatHardcover
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- Item Height1.1 in
- Item Length11.3 in
- Item Width9.4 in
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- Intended AudienceTrade
- Dewey Edition23
- Dewey Decimal759.7
- Table Of ContentDirector's Foreword and Acknowledgments by Maura Reilly Introduction by Julia Tulovsky Andrei Erofeev: Essay on Komar and Melamid's years in the Soviet Union Robert Storr: Essay on Komar and Melamid from an American art perspective Ksenia Gurshtein: Essay on Komar and Melamid's influence on a younger generation of artists Mikhail Iampolsky: A Question of Style: Between "Eclecticism" and the "Grand Style" Reprint of several key texts by Komar and Melamid. (Julia and the artists to select) Checklist of the exhibition (approximately 175 objects, 125 illustrations) Selected bibliography Index Author bios (brief)
- SynopsisTracing a subversive artistic partnership that lambasted Soviet officialdom and American capitalism. Among the most compelling figures in the history of conceptual art, the Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid built their reputations by challenging viewers with controversial, witty, and ironic art. Komar & Melamid: A Lesson in History offers a comprehensive view of this trailblazing duo, who worked together from the late 1960s through 2004. In response to the overproduction of ideology that rendered Communist slogans and symbols nonsensical, Komar & Melamind founded the Sots Art movement in the early 1970s in the Soviet Union. Incorporating elements of pop art and Dadaism, Sots Art aimed to expose the absurdities of official art, which was limited to socialist realism. Harassed by the state and barred from traveling to their first international exhibit, Komar & Melamid responded by creating a "Trans-State" with passports and a constitution before emigrating to Israel and eventually the United States, where the follies of market-driven culture offered new subjects for their provocative critique. Andy Warhol famously donated his soul to the artists, which they sold for thirty rubles during We Buy and Sell Souls , a 1979 performance. The Most Wanted Paintings used market research to create images that were designed to please mass audiences in different countries, a flippant response to populist Soviet art. Komar & Melamid: A Lesson in History accompanies the first museum retrospective in the United States after the split of the couple to show the artists' joint work. Held at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in 2023, the exhibit explores Komar & Melamid's artistic evolution, spotlighting their social and political concerns. Featuring full-color illustrations and recent scholarship on the duo, the catalog highlights the enduring relevance of the artists' work, which sheds light on topics like the nature of personal freedoms in a totalitarian state, cultural exchange during the Cold War, and the expression of political differences through art., Among the most compelling artists in the history of conceptual art, the Russian-Americans Komar and Melamid used humor and irony to lambaste Soviet officialdom. With new scholarship and full-color illustrations, the book explores their journey from working under an oppressive regime to finding new subjects in the US for their provocative critique. From the invention of Sots Art, a conceptual movement that emerged in the early 1970s in the Soviet Union, to their sardonic Most Wanted Paintings project, based on market research, to the end of their joint career in the US, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid challenged viewers with provocative, witty and ironic art. Lavishly illustrated the book includes the latest scholarship on the duo and historically important texts, offering a renewed interpretation of the artists' social and political concerns.
- LC Classification NumberND699.K557
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