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.
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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.
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Good. Book Ex libris. Very good-condition, cover corner bumped, small scuff rear cover, pocket and withdrawn stamp back endpaper. a few other library marks, crease, small tear back endpaper, contents fine; dust jacket near fine, light edgewear, no marks. 205 pages, numerous color illustrations, paint-by-number design endpapers, oblong 4to, blue boards. Story of two Russians' survey of people worldwide on art preferences using 102 questions. Opinions of almost two billion people have been collected. Book includes the questions and statistical data along with results and has illustrations of the most and least wanted pictures in various countries.
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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.
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Color & b&w. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Oblong 4 vo. SIGNED & Insc By Both Authors First Edition, First Printing; dj w/unclipped price; 205 clean, unmarked pages; paint-by-number design endpapers, Story of two Russians' survey of people worldwide on art preferences using 102 questions. Opinions of almost two billion people have been collected. Book includes the questions and statistical data along with results and has illustrations of the most and least wanted pictures in various countries. will not fit in priority envelope.
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