US NONCONFORMIST ART THE SOVIET EXPERIENCE BOOK

US NONCONFORMIST ART THE SOVIET EXPERIENCE BOOK
An American book, Nonconformist Art: The Soviet Experience, 1956 to 1986 : the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey with over 500 illustrations, 326 in color. Published by Thames and Hudson, 1995. Hardcover. During the thirty-year Cold War period, Norton Dodge, Professor Emeritus of Economics at St. Marys College of Maryland, amassed a collection of approximately 10 000 works of art by more than 900 Soviet artists. Published in collaboration with the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, which now houses the collection, this book reproduces a selection of these remarkable works in a wide range of media including paintings, sculpture, photography, works on paper, banners, and performance art. Among the artists represented are Grisha Bruskin, Eric Bulatov, Mikhail Chemiakin, Ilya Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Leonid Lamm, Lydia Masterkova, Ernst Neizvestny, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Oscar Rabin, Evgenii Rukhin, and Oleg Tselkov. The seventeen accompanying essays provide a broad perspective on the subject, addressing a variety of issues and themes: methods of artistic control and oppression; the relationship of the work of these dissident artists to that of their Western counterparts; the dilemmas facing official artists who created subversive works; and the risky activities of collectors, most notably Norton Dodge. Librarian Books and Albums For Collectors, Russian and American Modern and Contemporary Fine And Decorative Art.

Dimensions
Overall size: 10 x 11 1/4 in. All measurements are approximate.

Condition
Overall good condition. Refer to photos. Sold as is.