Aleksandr Melamid (27 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. 203 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 22 x 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "This book complements a national traveling exhibition of Komar and Melamid's interpretation of the 'most wanted' and 'most unwanted' paintings of fourteen countries titled: The People's Choice, organized and circulated by ICI - Independent Curators International, touring to museums from September 1998 to December 2000. 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. / 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." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: What do people want?; America's most unwanted; America's most wanted; Blue landscapes, bewitching numbers, and the double life of jokes: An interview with Komar and Melamid; Master questionnaire and poll results; Vox pop: Notes on a public conversation, by JoAnn Wypijewski; Blue world order?: A post hoc statistical analysis of art preference surveys from ten countries, by John Bunge and Adrienne Freeman-Gallant; The paintings; Can it be the "Most wanted painting" even if nobody wants it?, by Arthur C. Danto. Size: Oblong. Collectible.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Good. 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. A book about former Soviet conceptual artists Komar and Melamid's project to find out what qualities ordinary people want in painting, edited by Nation editor JoAnn Wypijewski. She interviews the artists and includes essays by herself, by Arthur Danto, by statisticians John Bunge and Adrienne Freeman-Gallant, as well as the master questionnaire and poll results for the Nation Institute poll.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. 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. A book about former Soviet conceptual artists Komar and Melamid's project to find out what qualities ordinary people want in painting, edited by Nation editor JoAnn Wypijewski. She interviews the artists and includes essays by herself, by Arthur Danto, by statisticians John Bunge and Adrienne Freeman-Gallant, as well as the master questionnaire and poll results for the Nation Institute poll.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical Description; 60 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 30 cm. Language Notes; Mainly English /Russian te?te-be?che text. Notes; "Art, identity, migration." Exhibition catalog. Subjects; Art Travail en e?quipe Russie Expositions. Art dissident Russie Expositions. Dissident art. Dissident art Russia (Federation) Exhibitions. Exhibition catalogs. Group work in art. Group work in art Russia (Federation) Exhibitions. Komar, Vitaly. Komar, Vitaly Exhibitions. Melamid, Aleksandr. Melamid, Aleksandr Exhibitions. Russia (Federation). Yalta Conference. Yalta Conference (1945 : I?A?lta, Ukraine). 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical Description; 60 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 x 30 cm. Language Notes; Mainly English /Russian te?te-be?che text. Notes; "Art, identity, migration." Exhibition catalog. Subjects; Art Travail en e?quipe Russie Expositions. Art dissident Russie Expositions. Dissident art. Dissident art Russia (Federation) Exhibitions. Exhibition catalogs. Group work in art. Group work in art Russia (Federation) Exhibitions. Komar, Vitaly. Komar, Vitaly Exhibitions. Melamid, Aleksandr. Melamid, Aleksandr Exhibitions. Russia (Federation). Yalta Conference. Yalta Conference (1945 : I?A?lta, Ukraine). 1 Kg.…

Softcover. Condition: VG. White wraps with color illustration and black text. 61 pp. Color illustrations. Catalog of an exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, from 10 August to 21 September 1985 and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, from 6 October to 1 December 1985.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Catalogue of the exhibition of typographical works 'A Diary's Pages 1985-1988' by Russian pair Komar & Melamid at Galerie Barbara Farber in 1988; the works go under the general heading Death Poems; there is a Russian language section which I take to be a Russian version of the Death Poems (but I can't be sure); the main body of the catalogue is the works in English Language; limited to 250 copies; foxing to endpapers and text block, lighter occasional foxing in text, o.w. Very Good. . 137pp. square 8vo. Very Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. What is beauty? 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 a professional polling firm, 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 exported to nine other countries -- including Russia, China, France, and Kenya -- representing more than one-third of the world's population. Essays by JoAnn Wypijewski and noted art critic Arthur Danto, as well as interviews with the artists, explore the crisis of modernism, the cultural meaning of polls, the significance of landscape, and the commodification of just about everything. With the help of a professional polling firm, ex-Soviet art critics Komar and Melamid discovered that what Americans really want in art, regardless of class, race, or gender, is exactly what the art world disdains--a tranquil, realistic 'blue landscape'. Komar and Melamid provide a comic and profound discussion of art in our time. Full color art throughout.…

gr 8°, Brosch., 151 S. - gutes Exemoplar. Buch.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. Missing. First Edition. Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1997.FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. As new. Unread. First Edition, First Printing.Previous owner's artistic embossed stamp at bottom of half-title page, otherwise as new.

Condition: Very Good. Vitaly Komar; Alexander Melamid (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 203 pages. 8.75x11.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: sehr gut. Sprache: deutsch Paperback .

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Postcard in fine condition. Unmailed. Cards are sent in stiff mailers. Photo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket. Coffee stain on the foredge and the bottom of the spine evident on the dust jacket but barely noticeable on the book. Several additional items are laid into this copy. (1) Typed letter signed by Komar and Melmid to Jack Burnham in which they discuss the relationship of Duchamp with the Russian futurists. (2) Handwritten letter (2 pages) from Jamey Gambrell, the official translator for Komar and Melamid, to Jack Burnham sent with a copy (3) of Gambrell's translation of Komar and Melamid's "13th Book of the Prophets: The Book of the Priest and the Teacher" (4 pages). (4) Press release (3 page) for Komar and Melamid's exhibit at the Ronald Feldman Gallery with (5) the original manuscript of an essay (6 pages with holograph corrections/additions) on this exhibit presumably by Burnham. (6) the program for "Komar/Melamid and the Dissident Tradition in Russian Culture: A Symposium" which is fine in original wrappers. All six additional items are laid into this copy of the book and are in fine condition. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: New.