Painting By Numbers Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art

Wypijewski, JoAnn (editor)

ISBN 10: 0520218612 / ISBN 13: 9780520218611

Verlag: University of California Press, Berkeley CA, 1999

Beschreibung

Komar and Melamid, pioneers of Soviet pop art, conducted a survey of what Americans want in art, resulting in many pages of "cross tabulations of the American poll"-What is art? Who defines it? And why is high art so remote from most people? 205 pages profusely illustrated. Top of spine bumped.; 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 ".

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 13000

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Painting By Numbers Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art
• Verlag: University of California Press, Berkeley CA
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0520218612
• ISBN-13: 9780520218611
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good+
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Art

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Inhaltsangabe

What is art? Who defines it? And why is high art so remote from most people? With the same puckish humor and critical genius that made them the betes noires of Soviet cultural commissars, the Russian emigre art team of Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid takes on not only the billion-dollar American art industry but also capitalism's most venerated tool: the market research poll. With the help of The Nation Institute and a professional polling team, they discovered that what Americans want in art, regardless of class, race, or gender, is exactly what the art world disdains - a tranquil, realistic, blue landscape. "Painting by Numbers" includes the original questionnaire and reproductions of the 'most wanted' and 'most unwanted' paintings the artists made based on American survey results and on polls they commissioned in ten other countries - including Russia, China, France, and Kenya - representing almost one-third of the world's population. Essays by JoAnn Wypijewski and noted art critic Arthur Danto, as well as an interview with the artists, explore the crisis of modernism, the cultural meaning of polls, the significance of landscape, and the commodificaion of just about everything.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

JoAnn Wypijewski is a senior editor at The Nation. Her work has appeared there as well as in Harper's, Il Manifesto, and other publications. Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, pioneers of Soviet conceptual art, were expelled from official Soviet artists' associations and subsequently emigrated to the United States in 1978.