"Fragile Unity with E.T." (detail)

2004-2005

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Title
"Fragile Unity with E.T." (detail)
Creator
Komar, V.
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh (depositor)
Date
2004-2005
Identifier
EA000114
Description
Part of the Exhibition "Vitaly Komar: Three Day Weekend" at the Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art, October-December, 2003. According to Komar, the aim of the exhibition was the union of symbols of different faiths and spirituality with childhood photographs of his parents and himself. The image of Stalin in the artist's work here comes from a famous photograph of the Big Three at the Yalta Conference in 1945 which had been been banned in the Soviet Union. Komar first encountered this photograph in the 1980s in New York. Vitaly Komar (1943-) began his solo work in 2003. Earlier he and Alexander Malamid were the exemplary artistic duo of sots art, an art style that parodies the ideology of Soviet iconography.
Extent
40 x 30 in.
Type
still image
Genre
mixed media works
Subject
Politics and government--1917-1936
Politics and government--1936-1953
Communism and art
Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953
Geographic Subjects
Soviet Union
Russia (Federation)
Collection
Stalinka: Digital Library of Staliniana
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
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