Monumental Propaganda by Ashton, Dore - 1995

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Independent Curators Incorporated, 1995. Independent Curators Incorporated, 1994, 1994. MONUMENTAL PROPAGANDA (ISBN 0-916365-42-5) is the catalog for an exhibition organized by Komar & Melamid dealing with Monuments, especially those from the USSR. Text by Komar & Melamid, Dore Ashton, Andrei Bitov, Remo Guidieri, Fred Stephen Licht, J ames E. Young, Zinovy Zinik. Artists include Valeriy Aisenberg, Eidia, Ericson & Ziegler, IRWIN, Ilia Kitup, Komar & Melamid, Alexander Zosimov, Mark Tansey and others. 96 pages, black and white reproductions. Paper with stiff cover and wrap.. Fine as New.

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New York: Independent Curators Incorporated, 1994. from a run of 7500. Paperback. Fine. Red, color-illus. card wraps with white lettering on red spine. 95 pp. full of bw images. Catalogue from the touring exhibition of monumental statues of Soviet leaders and history, instigated by Komar & Melmid. Includes essays by 7 experts, a checklist of the works, and very brief biographical information about each artist represented. The focal point of the exhibition/catalogue is "to leave [the statues] at their sites and transform them, through art, into history lessons." Upon the dissolution of the USSR, many statues of the Soviet leaders were either destroyed or taken to statue graveyards (as in Budapest). Kolmar & Melamid propose creative changes/additions such as putting an enormous pigeon on Lenin's head or wrapping a noose around another's neck and leaving him dangling for all to see. A vicarious retaliation of sorts and a creative entree to a history lesson necessary for some aspects of Soviet life not… Read More

Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, 1995. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Large 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers with matching dust jacket, 95pp, numerous illustrations in text, etc. PLUS loosely inserted press photo of one of the exhibits __CONDITION : A well preserved FINE very clean and tight copy in a slightly edge-rubbed but otherwise FINE complete Dust Jacket. ... __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

Independent Curators International (ICI), 1995-02-02. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Independent Curators International, New York. New. 1994. Paperback. 0916365425 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- Corresponds to ISBN: 0916365425. 96 pp. With 84 ills. 30 x 22 cm. Description: "Accompanying an exhibition of irreverent and fantastic proposals for transforming Communist-era monuments in Russia that were submitted by more than 100 international artists in response to a 1992 invitation by Russian expatriate painters Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, this catalogue presents illustrations of a selection of the drawings, altered photographs, collages and other works created for the show, documentary photographs of Soviet monuments, and seven essays broadly exploring the political, sociological and artistic character of propagandistic sculpture." -- with a bonus offer--; 0.5 x 11.3 x 8.3 Inches .