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In the eye of the storm : modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s / edited by Konstantin Akinsha, Katia Denysova, Olena Kashuba-Volvach.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2022Description: 248 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780500297155
  • 0500297150
Subject(s):
Contents:
Foreword / Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza
Introduction / Konstantin Akinsha
KYIV
From Kyiv to Paris: The Cosmopolitanism of Alexandra Exter / Katia Denysova
The Beginning: The First Avant-Garde Exhibitions in Ukraine / Olena Kashuba-Volvach
The Art Section of the Kultur Lige: Yiddish Avant-Garde Art in Kyiv (1918-1922) / Hillel Kazovsky
Oleksandr Bohomazov: The Ukrainian Version of Futurism / Olena Kashuba-Volvach
Boichukism / Myroslava M. Mudrak
Bauhaus on the Banks of Dnipro / Olena Kashuba-Volvach
KHARKIV
The Tragic Sensuality of the Kharkiv Avant-Garde / Tetiana Zhmurko
Constructor Vasyl Yermylov: A Captive of the Material World / Konstantin Akinsha
Visual and Spatial Experiments in Ukrainian Scenography of the 1920s / Olena Kovalchuk
Ivan Kavaleridze: Searching for the Hero of the New Age / Oksana Barshynova
Nova heneratsiia (1927-1930) / Myroslava M. Mudrak
ODESA
The Odesa Society of Independent Artists / Olha Barkovska
From Symbolism to Avant-Garde: The Emancipation of Ukrainian Cinema in the 1920s / Ivan Kozlenko
AFTERMATH
In the Shadow of Russia: Ukrainian Art at the XVI Venice Biennale of 1928 / Olena Kashuba-Volvach & Maryna Drobotiuk
The émigrés from Ukraine: Archipenko, Delaunay and Baranoff-Rossiné / Katia Denysova
From Oblivion to Glory: Spetsfond or The Special Secret Holding / Yuliia Lytvynets
Summary: 'In the Eye of the Storm' presents the groundbreaking art produced in what is now Ukraine in the early 20th century - at a time when the country did not exist as the independent state it had previously been and is again today. The book accompanies an exhibition tracing the artistic developments between 1900 and the mid-1930s, focusing on three key regional centres - Kharkiv, Kyiv and Odesa - against a complicated socio-political backdrop of collapsing empires, World War I, the Revolution with the ensuing civil war, and the creation of Soviet Ukraine.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid 2022-23; travelling to the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium; Belvedere, Vienna; Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza

Introduction / Konstantin Akinsha

KYIV

From Kyiv to Paris: The Cosmopolitanism of Alexandra Exter / Katia Denysova

The Beginning: The First Avant-Garde Exhibitions in Ukraine / Olena Kashuba-Volvach

The Art Section of the Kultur Lige: Yiddish Avant-Garde Art in Kyiv (1918-1922) / Hillel Kazovsky

Oleksandr Bohomazov: The Ukrainian Version of Futurism / Olena Kashuba-Volvach

Boichukism / Myroslava M. Mudrak

Bauhaus on the Banks of Dnipro / Olena Kashuba-Volvach

KHARKIV

The Tragic Sensuality of the Kharkiv Avant-Garde / Tetiana Zhmurko

Constructor Vasyl Yermylov: A Captive of the Material World / Konstantin Akinsha

Visual and Spatial Experiments in Ukrainian Scenography of the 1920s / Olena Kovalchuk

Ivan Kavaleridze: Searching for the Hero of the New Age / Oksana Barshynova

Nova heneratsiia (1927-1930) / Myroslava M. Mudrak

ODESA

The Odesa Society of Independent Artists / Olha Barkovska

From Symbolism to Avant-Garde: The Emancipation of Ukrainian Cinema in the 1920s / Ivan Kozlenko

AFTERMATH

In the Shadow of Russia: Ukrainian Art at the XVI Venice Biennale of 1928 / Olena Kashuba-Volvach & Maryna Drobotiuk

The émigrés from Ukraine: Archipenko, Delaunay and Baranoff-Rossiné / Katia Denysova

From Oblivion to Glory: Spetsfond or The Special Secret Holding / Yuliia Lytvynets

'In the Eye of the Storm' presents the groundbreaking art produced in what is now Ukraine in the early 20th century - at a time when the country did not exist as the independent state it had previously been and is again today. The book accompanies an exhibition tracing the artistic developments between 1900 and the mid-1930s, focusing on three key regional centres - Kharkiv, Kyiv and Odesa - against a complicated socio-political backdrop of collapsing empires, World War I, the Revolution with the ensuing civil war, and the creation of Soviet Ukraine.