Dear Friends,

A reminder that the first of our January gallery talks begins this afternoon at 4:30.  We hope you will be able to join us!

Warm regards,

The Davis Center

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The Arts of Subversion:
Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union
 
The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection
 
Please join us for a gallery talk with curator Anna Wexler Katsnelson:
 
Wednesday, January 7 at 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, January 13 at 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 15 at 5:30 p.m.
 
RSVP to davisoutreach@fas.harvard.edu.
 
All talks will be held in the CGIS South Building, Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street. Please scroll down for parking information.  Exhibition open to the public Monday through Friday until January 22. Please contact the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies for more information: 617-495-4037; daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu; http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/
 
 
The Arts of Subversion: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union showcases selections from the Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection, the most comprehensive collection of Soviet nonconformist art in the world. The art spans a period of thirty years, from the mid-1950s, soon after Stalin’s death and Khrushchev’s rise to power, through the period of stagnation under Brezhnev in the 1970s and Gorbachev’s glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s. The exhibition includes photographs, lithographs, etchings, oils, and collages by a diverse range of artists, displaying influences from the Russian avant-garde, constructivism, surrealism, conceptualism, and Western abstract impressionism, among others.
 
Presented in celebration of the Center’s sixtieth anniversary and the recent gift to the Center of Soviet nonconformist art from Norton and Nancy Dodge, The Arts of Subversion features works from the new Davis Center collection, the Dodge Collection at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, as well as the Dodges’ personal collection. Together, the exhibited works speak to the interrelationship of art and power as reflected in the visual culture of the Soviet Union, and the vitality of the underground culture that emerged there as artists sought to express their own aesthetic voices.
 
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Parking: To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking Services at https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl.  If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose “Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies” and enter department code 2020. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.