Andy Warhol in Russian advertising -- "Amerikanskoe salo"

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear colleagues,

I've just come across a strange appropriation of Andy Warhol's art in  
Russian advertising. There is an article published by Kommersant on  
anti-Ukranian and supposedly anti-American posters that are currently  
located in the underground in Moscow:

http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?DocsID=1112408

I know that Komar and Melamid imitated Warhol at some point but I  
haven't seen any recent works that make use of Wahol's art.

I'm just wondering whether the latest employment of Warhol's art is  
just a random gesture or whether it is related to a cultural trend to  
parody US pop-art? If some of you have more examples of the use of  
Warhol's work in advertising, or in a parodic way in post-Soviet art  
please let me know.
Many thanks in advance.


All best,
Alexandra







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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
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Edinburgh EH8 9JX
UK

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e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk





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