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Decommunized, Ukrainian Soviet mosaics

Title: Decommunized, Ukrainian Soviet mosaics / Yevgen Nikiforov ; authors/editors: Olga Balashova, Lizaveta German ; translation: Iaroslava Strikha.
Author: Nikiforov, Yevgen
Publication: Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2017]

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Description

255 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm +

Summary

The book presents the first comprehensive study of Soviet monumental mosaics, outstanding artefacts of the cultural heritage of the era. Photographer Yevgen Nikiforov spent three years traveling all around Ukraine (including the presently occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts) in search of the most interesting art pieces of the 1950s-1980s within the context of Soviet Modernism. He covered 35,000 km of Ukrainian roads and visited 109 cities and villages to discover more than 1,000 surviving mosaics. The book includes around 200 unique photographs of monumental panels: officially sanctioned gigantic images of workers, farmers, astronauts and athletes of coloured smalto or ceramics illustrate Soviet life as it was meant to be represented. Some of the pieces featured here were demolished shortly after the photographs were taken: they fell afoul of the so-called decommunization laws that ban communist symbols and slogans. Though the content of Soviet art was meticulously controlled by state propaganda, Ukrainian artists managed to develop a visual language that transcends the Socialist Realist canon. Today these works serve as historical testimony, and show a new important page in the 20th-century art history.

Subject

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

Note

Includes index.

Language (note)

Translated from Ukrainian.

Call Number

JQF 17-1662

ISBN

9783869225838
3869225831

LCCN

2017376972
9783869225838

OCLC

987692109

Author

Nikiforov, Yevgen, author, phtographer.

Title

Decommunized, Ukrainian Soviet mosaics / Yevgen Nikiforov ; authors/editors: Olga Balashova, Lizaveta German ; translation: Iaroslava Strikha.

Publisher

Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2017]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Translated from Ukrainian.

Added Author

Balashova, O. N. (Olʹga N.), author, editor.

Lizaveta, German, author, editor.

Strikha, Iaroslava, translator.

Other Standard Identifier

9783869225838

Research Call Number

JQF 17-1662

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