These four works exemplify Komar and Melamid’s simultaneous criticality of ideological Soviet propaganda on the one hand, and Western consumer culture on the other. In this thesis, I analyze four works by Komar and Melamid from the period of their immigration to the United States: Color Therapeutics (1974-1975), Circle, Square, Triangle (1974), Catalog of Super Objects – Super Comfort for Super People (1975) and We Buy and Sell Souls (1978-1979). Over the course of almost 40 years of collaboration, they created various artworks commenting on power and popular culture using a wide range of media. The Soviet-born American artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid formed their artistic partnership in Moscow in 1965.
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