Komar and Melamid

Name: Komar and Melamid
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
SKU: 9783777441092
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Komar and Melamid delves into the careers of the influential Russian-American conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid. Renowned for their use of humour and irony, the duo critiqued Soviet officialdom through pioneering works like Sots Art, a conceptual movement from the 1970s. The book traces their transition from oppressive Soviet circumstances to provocative, market-research-inspired projects in the US, enriched with full-colour illustrations and recent scholarship.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, conceptual art history, Soviet-era culture, and those fascinated by the intersection of politics and artistic expression.

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Among the most compelling artists in the history of conceptual art, the Russian-Americans Komar and Melamid used humour and irony to lambaste Soviet officialdom. With new scholarship and full-colour 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.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777441092

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 June 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: 250 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Julia Tulovsky
Contributions by R. Storr
Contributions by M. Lampolski

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 1660g

Pages: 288

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Julia Tulovsky is Curator for Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. She holds a PhD from Moscow State University and previously worked at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the Malevich Society, New York. She has published broadly on avant-garde and contemporary art.