Sots Art
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Often referred to as “Soviet Pop Art”, Sots Art or soc art (Russian: Соц-арт, short for Socialist Art) originated in the Soviet Union in the early 1970s as a reaction against the official aesthetic doctrine of the state— socialist realism, which was marked by reverential depictions of workers, peasants living happily in their communes.
According to Arthur Danto, Sots Art's attack on official styles is similar in intent to American pop art and German capitalist realism.[2]
Artists
- Grisha Bruskin
- Eric Bulatov
- Vitaly Komar
- Alexander Kosolapov
- Igor Novikov (painter)
- Alexander Melamid
- Dmitri Prigov
- Leonid Sokov
References
- ^ "The Post-Utopian Art of Vitaly Komar & Aleksandr Melamid (Sots Art: 1970s, '80s)". russian.psydeshow.org.
- ISBN 0-691-00299-1
Further reading
- Regina Khidekel, It’s the Real Thing: Soviet Sots-art and American Pop-art. Minnesota University Press, 1988
- Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, ISBN 978-1881616917
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