Title: Monumental propaganda /
Authors: Komar, Vitaly.; Melamid, Aleksandr.; Ashton, Dore.; Independent Curators Incorporated.
Publisher: Independent Curators Incorporated,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Conceptual art Exhibitions.; Socialist realism in art Russia (Federation) Exhibitions.
Abstract: Discusses what is to be done with Russia's Socialist Realist monuments now that the U.S.S.R. is no more. Proposes a transformation of these monuments, through art, into history lessons.
Contents: What is to be done with monumental propaganda? ; Letter to Boris Yeltsin / Komar & Melamid -- To degree zero and back / Dore Ashton -- Realia of paradise : a Berlin installation / Andrei Bitov -- Happy days / Remo Guidieri -- We remember, or so it seems / Komar & Melamid -- What happened to the "sneer of cold command?" / Fred Stephen Licht -- The monument in ruins / James E. Young -- The dawning of world communism : a letter from the museum tavern / Zinovy Zinik.