People's artists. (Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid) (Editorial)

The Nation | March 14, 1994| | Copyright

It has been said that Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid are to art what P.D.Q. Bach is to music. The analogy is flawed, for P.D.Q. Back si a figment of composer Peter Schickele's imagination, whereas Komar and Melamid are figments of their own imaginations. These Russian emigres describe themselvesas "homesless," "floating," "displaced persons who produced displaced art." They have been called satirists, anarcho-synthesists, spiritualists, international dissidents, nostaligists, romantics and neo-Socialist Realists. All they will admit is that "for art history, the ...

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