Sjeklocha Paul, Mead Igor. Unofficial Art in the Soviet Union

University of California Press, 1967. — 236 p.During the past twenty years much has been written on Soviet Russia. Yet, a significant aspect of postwar Russia has been ignored: the "unofficial art" movement — the art school which does not adhere to the official tenets of socialist realism and whose followers do not belong to the Artists Union. We had the rare experience of meeting many representatives of this movement, which embraces an increasingly important segment of the Soviet creatixe community. We were given the opportunity to staff the American Graphic Arts Exhibit, a collection of prints and related works, which toured the Soviet Union in 1963-64 under the auspices of the East-West Cultural Exchange Agreement. We visited Moscow, Leningrad, Yerevan, Alma-Ata, and some cities not officially on our list.