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Summary:

Abstract: The years following the inception of perestroika policies and encompassing the collapse of the Soviet Union remarkably transformed Kyiv's art scene, successfully launching Ukrainian contemporary art as a truly global phenomenon. The calm waters of the culturally provincial capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic became radically stirred with new and daring art made publicly visible for the first time since the avant-garde period. This explosion of styles, rediscovered histories, and newly found freedoms blossoming against the background of the collapsing Soviet empire, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986, and increasing economic scarcity created an effect of baroque excess. As if in a crooked mirror, the overabundance in art styles and the limitless production of new meanings reflected the emptiness of the hollowed-out Communist ideology and late socialist realist art. This exhibition traces and documents the diverse artistic manifestations of these transitional and exhilarating years in Kyiv while providing some historical artworks for context.

Table of Contents:

• Painting Ukrainian perestroika : a parade of excesses / Olena Martynyuk
• The point of no return : the art of Kyiv at a historical crossroads / Oleksandr Soloviov
• Back and down to empty landscapes : notes on Ukraine's reverse modernism / Asia Bazdyrieva
• Prodigal children of socialist realism : new Ukrainian art and the Soviet Art School / Alisa Lozhkina
• Collecting eras : a conversation / Igor Abramovych and Olena Martynyuk.

Contributors:

Martynyuk, Olena , writer of supplementary textual content

Bazdyrieva, Asia , writer of supplementary textual content

Lozhkina, Alisa , writer of supplementary textual content

Solovĭov, Oleksandr, 1952- , writer of supplementary textual content

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum , host institution, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Painting, Ukrainian — Ukraine — Kyïv — 20th century — Exhibitions

Painting, Modern — 20th century — Exhibitions

1900-1999

Painting, Modern

Painting, Ukrainian

Ukraine — Kyïv

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

General Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey, November 6, 2021-April 10, 2022.
Includes bibliographical references (page 133) and index.

Physical Description:

143 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

ND695.U5 P37 2021

ISBNs:

9781978830752
1978830750

OCLC Numbers:

1319167990