"Most people outside of the art world view art as something that is foreign to their experiences and everyday lives. A People's Art History of the United States places art history squarely in the rough-and-tumble of politics, social struggles, and the fight for justice from the colonial era through the present day. Author and radical artist Nicolas Lampert combines historical sweep with detailed examinations of individual artists and works in a politically...

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...

Documents the closure, by force, of the outdoor exhibition of officially disapproved figurative painting, in Profsoyuznaya St., Moscow, on 15 Sept. 1974, by the District Executive Committee of S.W. Moscow.

For the uninitiated, the Komar-Melamid paintings (their work is a collaborative effort) no doubt will be a surprise and a delight: it is at once sprightly, intricate, and mystical. Called "Sots" art (for Socialist art), it is a kind of Pop that parodies the propaganda posters and street banners designed for public consumption by Russian officialdom. The Sots subjects from the first show include the stern head of a worker holding his finger to his...