The Ransom of Russian Art

McPhee, John

McPhee, John - The Ransom of Russian Art
McPhee, John - The Ransom of Russian Art

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In the 1960s and 1970s, an American professor of Soviet economics forayed on his own in the Soviet Union, bought the work of underground "unofficial" artists, and brought it out himself or arranged to have it illegally shipped to the United States. Norton Dodge visited the apartments of unofficial artists in at least a dozen geographically scattered cities. By 1977, he had a thousand works of art. His ultimate window of interest involved the years from 1956 to 1986, and through his established contacts he eventually acquired another eight thousand works-by far the largest collection of its kind. John McPhee investigates Dodge's clandestine activities in the service of dissident Soviet art, his motives for his work, and the fates of several of the artists whose lives he touched. The Ransom of Russian Art is a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report on a covert operation like no other. It offers unprecedented insight into Soviet culture at the brink of the Union's collapse.
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McPhee, John
Titel
The Ransom of Russian Art
Uitgever
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Jaar
1998
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
192
Gewicht
295 gr
EAN
9780374524500
Afmetingen
203 x 140 x 13 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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