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Entangled Art Histories in Ukraine book cover

1st Edition

Entangled Art Histories in Ukraine

Edited By Stefaniia Demchuk, Illia Levchenko Copyright 2025
258 Pages 8 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 8 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 8 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores ideologies, conflicts and ideas that underpinned art historical writing in Ukraine in the 20th century. Disciplinary beginnings testify both to its deep connection to Krakow, Saint Petersburg and especially Vienna with its school of art history and originality of theoretical thought. Art history started as another imperial project in Ukraine, but ultimately transformed into... Read more

List of Contributors

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction. “A Subject very New…”: Uncovering the Entangled Fates of Art History in Ukraine (Stefaniia Demchuk, Illia Levchenko)

 

I.              Disciplinary beginnings (1805 – 1920s)

·       University as a seat of art history (Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lviv, Odesa) (Stefaniia Demchuk, Illia Levchenko, Maryana Levytska)

·       Fedir Schmit’s ‘Art, its psychology, form and evolution (1919)’, Wöllflinn and the Vienna School (Stefaniia Demchuk)

·       “By the Will, not Chance”: Hryhorii Pavlutskyi's ‘History of Ukrainian ornament’ (1927) (Petro Kotliarov)

 

II.            Early Soviet years: new media, formalism as a method (1917 – 1937)

·       Ivan Vrona - Kulturtraeger of the Erased Time (Tetyana Filevska)

·       Ukrainian Art Periodicals of the 1920s: between the Revolution and the Executed Renaissance (Yuliia Pivtorak)

 

III.          Mysteztvoznavstvo’: a Socialist Realist Art History (1937 – 1986)

·       Love for the Art of the Motherland: Writing Ukrainian Art History after World War II (Polina Baitsym)

·       Soviet Ukraine’s Art History Education in a Historical Context (Lada Nakonechna, Olena Godenko-Nakonechna)

·       A Revival of Ukrainian Art History? Entangled paths of the six-volume "History of Ukrainian Art" (1966–1970) (Olha Novikova)

·       Bypassing Ideological Traps: Soviet non-Marxist Art History in Lviv (Mariana Levytska)

 

IV.          Post-Soviet and/or Postmodern? (1986 – 2014)

·       The nation as a framework for art historical writing. Constructs: ‘Kyivan’ Rus', Baroque, Avant-garde (Illia Levchenko)

Curating as a Way of Producing Knowledge in Art History (Through the Example of Projects at the National Art Museum of Ukraine) (Oksana Barshynova)

Biography

Stefaniia Demchuk is Associate Professor of art history at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and a research fellow at Masaryk University, Brno.

Illia Levchenko is Assistant Professor of art history at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

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