Our Goal is Communism! Komar and Melamid

Artist Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid (Russian, 1973-2003)

Date1972

CultureRussian

MediumTempera on cotton fabric

DimensionsOverall: 38.5 × 195.5 cm (15 3/16 × 76 15/16 in.)

ClassificationsDecorative Arts

Credit LineNorton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union

Object number1999.0715

Exhibition History- Soviet Nonconformist Art from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, 03/06/1995-05/27/1995, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ - Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, 03/17/2001-06/11/2001, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH - Dream Factory Communism: The Visual Culture of the Stalin Era, 09/24/2003-01/04/2004, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany - Rotation, 08/2005-03/2012, Zimmerli Art Museum, Dodge Wing Upper Level - “Thinking Pictures”: Moscow Conceptual Art in the Dodge Collection, 09/06/2016-12/31/2016, Zimmerli Art Museum, Voorhees Gallery - Rotation, 01/19/2017-02/2017, Zimmerli Art Museum, Dodge Wing Lower Level - Thinking Pictures: Conceptual Art from Moscow and the Baltics, 03/17/2022 - 08/14/2022, Art Museum of Estonia (KUMU), Tallinn, Estonia - Komar and Melamid: A Lesson in History, 02/11/2023-07/16/2023, Zimmerli Art Museum, Voorhees Gallery

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