Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art

JoAnn Wypijewski, Editor;

ISBN 10: 0520218612 / ISBN 13: 9780520218611

Editore: University of California Press, 1997

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First edition 1997, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Published by University of California Press. Large softcover without DJ as issued. Condition new, square, tight and clean book, no edgewear, sharp corners, spine not creased, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent pages. Not a reminder. Oblong 4to, 205 pages, illustrated.

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• Titolo: Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art
• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520218612
• ISBN 13: 9780520218611
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: New
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket

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Riassunto

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 bêtes noires of Soviet cultural commissars, the Russian émigré 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 disdainsa 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 countriesincluding Russia, China, France, and Kenyarepresenting 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.

Informazioni sull?autore

JoAnn Wypijewski is a senior editor at The Nation. Her work has appeared there as well as inHarper'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.