Monumental propaganda / instigated by Komar & Melamid ; edited by Dore Ashton ; essays by Dore Ashton [and others].

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Independent Curators Inc., ©1994.
Description
95 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm

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    Discusses what is to be done with Russia's Socialist Realist monuments now that the U.S.S.R. is no more. Proposes a transformation of these monuments, through art, into history lessons.
    Contents
    • What is to be done with monumental propaganda? ; Letter to Boris Yeltsin / Komar & Melamid
    • To degree zero and back / Dore Ashton
    • Realia of paradise : a Berlin installation / Andrei Bitov
    • Happy days / Remo Guidieri
    • We remember, or so it seems / Komar & Melamid
    • What happened to the "sneer of cold command?" / Fred Stephen Licht
    • The monument in ruins / James E. Young
    • The dawning of world communism : a letter from the museum tavern / Zinovy Zinik.
    ISBN
    • 0916365425
    • 9780916365424
    LCCN
    94077669
    OCLC
    32590600
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