Komar/Melamid

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"A book with relevance extending beyond the narrow limits of art history and art criticism. Recommended."-Choice

"Komar/Melamid's art is an amusing and intelligent commentary on both Communist and capitalist trends: the USSR's excess of propaganda, the ram-pant consumerism in the West. The artists are the proponents of, among other things, a style they call 'Sots'-Soviet pop art. The long essays that be-gin the book may help to make clear to Westerners why their art, which seems far from outre to us, is considered so subversive in their native land. An en-lightening and entertaining study."- Library Journal "An in-depth discussion of the paint-ings of Soviet dissident art is pro-vided by Jack Burnham."-Judaica Book News



"Few works by dissidents are available in reproduction yet; this is worth see-ing."-Washington International Arts Letter



"Their [Komar and Melamid's] touch is brilliantly cool and ironic, their satire and iconoclasm not tied to any ideology other than one of creative expression."-Amy Newman, ARTnews,April 1976