Entangled Art Histories in Ukraine

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

1. Introduction. A Subject very New: Uncovering the Entangled Fates of Art History in Ukraine (Stefaniia Demchuk, Illia Levchenko), 2. I. Disciplinary beginnings (1805 1920s), 3. II. Early Soviet years: new media, formalism as a method (1917 1937), 4. III. Mysteztvoznavstvo': a Socialist Realist Art History (1937 1986), 5. IV. Post-Soviet and/or Postmodern? (1986 2014)