Komar and Melamid

A Lesson in History

Julia Tulovsky, R. Storr, M. Lampolski

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Hirmer Verlag
20 September 2023

Theory of art; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

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.

Contributions by: R. Storr, M. Lampolski
Edited by: Julia Tulovsky
Imprint: Hirmer Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 229mm,
Weight: 1.660kg
ISBN: 9783777441092
ISBN 10: 3777441090
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 20 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.