ISBN 0374246823

Hardcover with dust jacket First Edition, 1994

Condition: Fine, Dustjacket inside top corner (price area?) cut...some light creasing on dustacket. (was this remaindered?)

In the '60s and '70s, Norton Dodge, 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. 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 8000 works - 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. <br>

-Nonfiction -Art -History

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