In the Eye of the Storm

Name: In the Eye of the Storm
Brand: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd
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Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s

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You might enjoy this book if you have a keen interest in exploring the intricate connections between art and societal change. It invites readers on a journey through various cultural landscapes, examining how artistic expressions have shaped and been shaped by the stormy tides of human history.

This groundbreaking study of avant-garde art produced in Ukraine between 1900 and the 1930s accompanies a major international exhibition opening at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid before traveling to other venues in Europe.

Published to accompany the Royal Academy exhibition from 29 June to 13 October 2024, a major study of Ukrainian art from 1900 to the mid-1930s - with loans from major museums in Ukraine, elsewhere in Europe, the United States (including MoMA) and Israel

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How does artistic life flourish during revolution and conflict? Ukraine in the early 1900s endured unimaginable political upheaval, yet this became a period of true renaissance in Ukrainian art, literature, theatre, and cinema.

In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s presents the ground-breaking art produced in Ukraine in the early 20th century, focusing on the three key cultural centres of Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa. Against a complicated socio-political backdrop of collapsing empires, World War I, the revolutions of 1917 with the ensuing Ukrainian War of Independence, and the eventual creation of Soviet Ukraine, several strands of distinctly Ukrainian art emerged.

While émigrés such as Sonia Delaunay and Alexander Archipenko found fame outside their homeland, the followers of Mykhailo Boichuk focused on Byzantine revivalism, and the artists of the Kultur Lige sought to promote the development of contemporary Yiddish culture. The first avant-garde exhibitions in Ukraine featured the radical art of Davyd Burliuk and Alexandra Exter, and the dynamic canvases of the Kyiv-based Cubo-Futurist Oleksandr Bohomazov. In Kharkiv, Vasyl Yermilov championed the industrial art of Constructivism, while Vadym Meller, Anatol Petrytskyi, Oleksandr Khvostenko-Khvostov, and Borys Kosarev revolutionized theatre design. The attempt to build a national identity in Ukraine resulted in a polyphony of styles and artistic developments across a full range of media - from oil paintings, sketches, and sculpture to collages, cinema posters, and theatre designs.

Twelve internationally renowned scholars, including curators from the National Art Museum of Ukraine, bring to life this astonishing period of creativity in Ukraine and all the movements it encompassed.

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In the Eye of the Storm is praised for its generous illustrations and insightful introduction to an influential period in art history, focusing on a diverse group of artists. Reviewers commend it as informative and wide-ranging, highlighting its documentation of a significant Ukrainian modernism exhibition, featuring colour plates and essays by Ukrainian experts. These attributes make it highly recommended for those interested in the field.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780500297155

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 November 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd

Illustration: 221 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

Edited by Konstantin Akinsha
Edited by Katia Denysova
Edited by Olena Kashuba-Volvach

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 1610g

Pages: 248

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Konstantin Akinsha is an independent art historian, curator and journalist. He received the George Polk award for cultural reporting in 1991. Akinsha's curatorial projects include 'Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art, 1907-1917' (Neue Galerie, New York, 2015), 'Permanent Revolution: Ukrainian Art Today' (Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2018) and 'Between Fire and Fire: Ukrainian Art Now' (Semperdepot, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, 2019). He is the founding director of the Avant-Garde Art Research Project (UK) and the author of several books, including Beautiful Loot: The Soviet Plunder of Europe's Art Treasures (1995).

Katia Denysova is a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Her research investigates the influence of socio-political factors on early 20th-century art in Ukraine. She has contributed to the H-SHERA, ArtHist and Dash Arts podcast series, and the journals Arts, Art and the Public Sphere and immediations.

Olena Kashuba-Volvach heads the Department of 19th and early 20th-Century Art at the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU). She holds a PhD in art history from the Institute of Art Studies, Folklore and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and was the senior research fellow at the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. She is the author of numerous articles and has published several books, including Oleksandr Bohomazov: A Self-Portrait (2012), The Ukrainian Academy of Art: A Brief History (2015) and Art Pages of the New Generation, 1927-1930 (2016). In 2019-20, Kashuba-Volvach curated the multi-venue exhibition Oleksandr Bohomazov: The Artistic Laboratory.