{"product_id":"in-the-eye-of-the-storm-9780500297155","title":"In the Eye of the Storm","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e'Informative and wide-ranging' - Apollo\u003cbr\u003e'[Documents] an impressive exhibition of Ukrainian modernism with colour plates and extensive essays by 12 Ukrainian scholars and museum officials... Highly recommended' - Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Konstantin Akinsha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eI. Kyiv\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eFrom Kyiv to Paris: The Cosmopolitanism of Alexandra Exter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Katia Denysova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eThe Beginning: The First Avant-Garde Exhibitions in Ukraine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Olena Kashuba-Volvach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eThe Art Section of the Kultur Lige: Yiddish Avant-Garde Art in Kyiv (1918–1922)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hillel Kazovsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eOleksandr Bohomazov: The Ukrainian Version of Futurism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Olena Kashuba-Volvach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eBoichukism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Myroslava M. Mudrak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eBauhaus on the Banks of the Dnipro\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Olena Kashuba-Volvach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eII: Kharkiv\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eThe Tragic Sensuality of the Kharkiv Avant-Garde\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tetiana Zhmurko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eConstructor Vasyl Yermilov: A Captive of the Material World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Konstantin Akinsha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eVisual and Spatial Experiments in Ukrainian Scenography of the 1920s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Olena Kovalchuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIvan Kavaleridze: Searching for the Hero of the New Age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Oksana Barshynova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNova heneratsiia\u003c\/i\u003e (1927–1930)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Myroslava M. Mudrak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIII. Odesa\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eThe Odesa Society of Independent Artists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Olha Barkovska\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eFrom Symbolism to Avant-Garde: The Emancipation of Ukrainian Cinema in the 1920s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ivan Kozlenko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIV. Aftermath\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIn the Shadow of Russia: Ukrainian Art at the XVI Venice Biennale of 1928\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Olena Kashuba-Volvach \u0026amp; Maryna Drobotiuk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eThe Émigrés from Ukraine: Archipenko, Delaunay and Baranoff-Rossiné\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Katia Denysova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eFrom Oblivion to Glory: \u003ci\u003eSpetsfond\u003c\/i\u003e or The Special Secret Holding\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yuliia Lytvynets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePlates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Authors’ Biographies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Picture Credits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864799326551,"sku":"9780500297155","price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780500297155.jpg?v=1722273161","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-the-eye-of-the-storm-9780500297155","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}