Komar & Melamid by Ratcliff, Carter; Vitaly Komar; Aleksandr Melamid - 1988

New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. Hardcover. Like New. Red cloth boards, red glossy DJ with color illustration. 208 pp., 185 illustrations in color and BW. Text in English. From the DJ: Whatever world they find themselves in is illuminated by the brilliant flashes of Komar and Melamid's high-intensity wit. As dissident artists in Moscow they skewered the sacred cows of Soviet ideology and western civilization. During a brief interval in Israel they leavened the weight of religious tradition with irreverent performances and apocryphal tales. Unpredictable, unorthodox, unlike any other artists, Komar and Melamid have transformed into visual and verbal virtuosity their memories of pre-glasnost Russia and their experiences in the United States.