The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum is the largest collection of Soviet nonconformist art in existence. Comprising more than 25,000 works by over 900 artists, it documents the activities of underground artists from Moscow and Leningrad, as well as from the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan between the years 1956-1987. 《MOSCOW CONCEPTUALISM IN CONTEXT》 features the most outstanding of these works in stunning color and black-and-white reproductions. Essays by leading scholars and statements and interviews with artists such as Ilya Kabakov, the Gerlovins, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, who played a major role in this important movement, offer a general critical appraisal and history of the movement and highlight certain distinctive aspects such as performance and experimental art.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I CRITICAL APPRAISAL AND HISTORY

CHAPTER II ASPECTS OF THE MOVEMENT

CHAPTER III WESTERN PERSPECTIVES

CHAPTER IV ARTISTS' STATEMENTS AND INTERVIEWS

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTING SCHOLARS

INDEX