Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art
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The Dodge Collection is the largest collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art
in existence.
The collection was amassed by an economics professor from the University of Maryland
, Norton Dodge
, from the late 1950s until the advent of Perestroika
. The collection comprises roughly 20,000 works of art and is housed at the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University
, USA.
Soviet Nonconformist Art
The term Soviet Nonconformist Art refers to art produced in the former Soviet Union from 1953-1986 outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism...
in existence.
The collection was amassed by an economics professor from the University of Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
, Norton Dodge
Norton Dodge
Norton Townshend Dodge was an American economist who has amassed one of the largest collections of Soviet-era art outside the Soviet Union...
, from the late 1950s until the advent of Perestroika
Perestroika
Perestroika was a political movement within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during 1980s, widely associated with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
. The collection comprises roughly 20,000 works of art and is housed at the Zimmerli Museum of Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
, USA.