Author: KOMAR, VITALI AND ALEKSANDR MELAMID. MELVYN B. NATHANSON, EDITOR. JACK BURNHAM, INTRODUCTION
Title: Komar / Melamid: Two Soviet Dissident Artists with Additional Materials
Description: Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1979, First Edition. Book Hardcover , /Very Good, Very good in dust jacket. Coffee stain on the foredge and the bottom of the spine evident on the dust jacket but barely noticeable on the book. Several additional items are laid into this copy. (1) Typed letter signed by Komar and Melmid to Jack Burnham in which they discuss the relationship of Duchamp with the Russian futurists. (2) Handwritten letter (2 pages) from Jamey Gambrell, the official translator for Komar and Melamid, to Jack Burnham sent with a copy (3) of Gambrell's translation of Komar and Melamid's "13th Book of the Prophets: The Book of the Priest and the Teacher" (4 pages). (4) Press release (3 page) for Komar and Melamid's exhibit at the Ronald Feldman Gallery with (5) the original manuscript of an essay (6 pages with holograph corrections/additions) on this exhibit presumably by Burnham. (6) the program for "Komar/Melamid and the Dissident Tradition in Russian Culture: A Symposium" which is fine in original wrappers. All six additional items are laid into this copy of the book and are in fine condition.

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