The Objects That Remain by Laura Levitt

The Objects That Remain by Laura Levitt

Author:Laura Levitt [Levitt, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9780271087825
Google: YztUzQEACAAJ
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2020-01-15T05:16:54+00:00


At the end of the cold war, Russian American artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid decided to engage, or possibly even reconcile in a paradoxical manner, Soviet and American mythologies, pledging to use a scientific method and to fulfill the promise of both Socialist Realist art and capitalist advertising. They decided to conduct an experiment: abandoning artistic freedom in the narrow sense of the word, they would instead satisfy “popular demand” and make art by the numbers, following the polls and the expression of the “people’s choice.”6



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