Sots Art

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.

Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid are credited with the invention of the term "Sots Art"; in an analogy with the Western pop art movement, which incorporated the kitchy elements of the Western mass culture , sots art capitalized on the imagery of the Socialist mass culture. ^[1]

According to Arthur Danto , Sots Art's attack on official styles is similar in intent to American pop art and German capitalist realism . ^[2]

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References [ edit ]

^ "The Post-Utopian Art of Vitaly Komar & Aleksandr Melamid (Sots Art: 1970s, '80s)" . russian.psydeshow.org .
^ Arthur Coleman Danto, After the End of Art: contemporary art and the pale of history , Princeton University Press, 1997, p126. ISBN 0-691-00299-1

Further reading [ edit ]

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 , Distributed Art Publishers , Inc.,1999, ISBN 978-1881616917

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[1] "The Post-Utopian Art of Vitaly Komar & Aleksandr Melamid (Sots Art: 1970s, '80s)" . russian.psydeshow.org .

[2] Arthur Coleman Danto, After the End of Art: contemporary art and the pale of history , Princeton University Press, 1997, p126. ISBN 0-691-00299-1

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