From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union: The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection by Rosenfeld, Alla and Norton T. Dodge - 1995

New York: Thames & Hudson, 1995. Softcover. VG (VG interior with unbroken spine; may have light fading to spine or light wear to cover edges; only slight age seen otherwise.). Red glossy wraps with white spine lettering. 360 pp. 326 color plates & over 174 bw illus. Accessible to the public for the first time, the Dodge collection, consisting of works by more than nine hundred unofficial and dissident artists, constitutes an unprecedented tool for understanding Soviet culture. A unique record of the development of key aspects of Soviet life throughout the Cold War, in particular, the thirty years between Khrushev's criticism of Stalinism in 1956 and the introduction of glasnost by Gorbachev in 1986. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, October 1995. With 17 sections and introductory essays for each one, by different specialists.