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    The End Is Here!

    by Lawrence Weschler Apr 06, 2018 2 minutes

    Gustave Courbet, L’origine du monde, 1866.

    The great artists see it coming.

    Back in their native Soviet Union, in the 1960s, collaborative artists Alexander Melamid and Vitaly Komar fashioned a body of work that deployed socialist realist tropes in comically magic realist and even downright Warholian terms, anticipating,

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