It’s the Real ThingAn extensively illustrated treatment of this pivotal art movement. Inspired by American pop art of the 1960s, sots art emerged in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. Both movements used irony, parody, and mockery to expose the core elements of their societies in the United States, consumerism, and in the USSR, communist ideology. Its the Real Thing is the catalog of a landmark exhibition in which the work of pre and post perestroika sots artists was