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Book SynopsisPublished 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. 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, 19001930s 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 Alexand
Trade Review'Generously illustrated... An introduction to an influential period and a diverse group of artists whose works continue to be uncovered, and whose history reverberates today' - Library Journal
'Informative and wide-ranging' - Apollo
'[Documents] an impressive exhibition of Ukrainian modernism with colour plates and extensive essays by 12 Ukrainian scholars and museum officials... Highly recommended' - Choice
Table of ContentsForeword Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza
Acknowledgments Introduction Konstantin Akinsha
I. 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 the Dnipro Olena Kashuba-Volvach
II: Kharkiv The Tragic Sensuality of the Kharkiv Avant-Garde Tetiana Zhmurko
Constructor Vasyl Yermilov: 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
III. Odesa The Odesa Society of Independent Artists Olha Barkovska
From Symbolism to Avant-Garde: The Emancipation of Ukrainian Cinema in the 1920s Ivan Kozlenko
IV. 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
Plates
Authors’ Biographies
Picture Credits
Index
