This book contains nearly three hundred illustrationsmany in colorthat serve to compare the art of the three Baltic countries. It also has three useful historical timelines that contextualize the art presented. In addition to historical overviews of each country, Art of the Baltics contains essays on the art of the region, written by both Baltic and American scholars. The articles extensively cover art of the 1960s through the 1980s, reflecting the Zimmerli Art Museums holdings of the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. To round out the scope of this work, contributors also discuss the pre-Soviet art of the region, as well as the recent creative developments resulting from the independence these small countries gained in 1991.

Art of the Baltics is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Art of the Baltics under the Soviets at The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

"The Dodge collection is, in fact, the largest and most comprehensive of its kind in the world, with art of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania extremely well represented. The purposes of this publication and its coinciding exhibition are to objectively and broadly document the great variety of artistic alternatives that evolved in the Baltics during the last thirty years of Soviet hegemony alternatives that often, but not always, countered the officially sanctioned art of Socialist Realism and to evaluate the greater levels of artistic freedom permissible in the Baltics . . . "from the Foreword

• Alfonsas Andriukevicius
• Norton T. Dodge
• Sirje Helme
• Juta Kivimäe
• Eha Komissarov
• Kestutis Kuizinas
• Viktoras Liutkus
• Eda Sepp
• Mark Allen Svede