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Title

Nonconformist art : the Soviet experience, 1956-1986 : the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey / general editors, Alla Rosenfeld and Norton T. Dodge.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson in association with the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Rosenfeld, Alla.
• Dodge, Norton T.
• Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum.

Description

360 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

• In the decades of the Cold War before glasnost and perestroika, dissident Soviet artists produced a dramatic, vital body of art - work that was forbidden and secret, but that survived and flourished despite persecution. Artists risked personal safety, imprisonment, and exile in their quest for individual expression.
• In opposition to the government-prescribed patriotic style of Socialist Realism, these "unofficial" artists worked in prohibited styles - abstraction, Surrealism, Expressionism, Photorealism, and Conceptualism - and depicted forbidden subject matter concerned with politics, religion, and eroticism. Until glasnost and the end of the Soviet Union, few people were familiar with the richness of this art; now the full story can be told.
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• During the thirty-year Cold War period, Norton Dodge, Professor Emeritus of Economics at St. Mary's 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.

Alternative Title

• Soviet experience, 1956-1968
• Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection
• From Gulag to Glasnost: nonconformist art from the Soviet Union.

Subject

• Dodge, Norton T. > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Dodge, Nancy > Art collections > Exhibitions
• Dissident art > Soviet Union > Exhibitions
• Art, Soviet > Exhibitions

Note

• Published in conjunction with the exhibition, From Gulag to Glasnost: nonconformist art from the Soviet Union, opening at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in Oct. 1995.
• Also published as: "From Gulag to Glasnost : nonconformist art from the Soviet Union".

Bibliography (note)

• Inlcudes bibliographical references (p. [345]-353) and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Phillip Dennis Cate -- 1. Notes on collecting nonconformist Soviet art / Norton T. Dodge -- 2. Soviet art under government control: From the 1917 Revolution to Khrushchev's thaw / Elena Kornetchuk -- 3. Art as politics and politics in art / Michael Scammell -- 4. "Nonidentity within identity": Moscow communal modernism, 1950s-1980s / Victor Tupitsyn -- 5. "A great city with a provincial fate": Nonconformist art in Leningrad from the Khrushchev thaw to Gorbachev's perestroika / Alla Rosenfeld -- 6. Lost in the widening cracks and now resurfaced: Dissidence in Ukrainian painting / Myroslava M. Mudrak -- 7. Estonian art under Communism / Olga Berendsen -- 8. Nonconformist art in Latvia: Smaller measures, to equal effect / Mark Allen Svede -- 9. Semi-nonconformist Lithuanian painting / Alfonsas Andriuskevicius -- 10. Light in darkness: The spirit of Armenian nonconformist art / Vartoug Basmadjian --
• 11. Nonconformist art of Soviet Georgia: A synthesis of East and West / Elena Kornetchuk -- 12. Icons of the inner world: The spiritual tradition in the new Russian art / Alison Hilton -- 13. Realism, Surrealism, and Photorealism: The reinvention of reality in Soviet art of the 1970s and 1980s / Janet Kennedy -- 14. "Discrete displacement": Abstract and Kinetic art in the Dodge Collection / John E. Bowlt -- 15. On some sources of Soviet Conceptualism / Margarita Tupitsyn -- 16. Nonconformist traditions and contemporary Russian art: A view from Moscow / Joseph Bakshtein -- 17. The view from the United States / Matthew Baigell.

ISBN

0500237093

LCCN

95060469

OCLC

• ocm33928046
• SCSB-14481391

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries