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

Main entry:

Nikiforov, Yevgen, author, phtographer.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Berlin : DOM Publishers, [2017]

Description:

255 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 folded poster

Notes:
Includes index.
Translated from Ukrainian.

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.

ISBN:

9783869225838 (hd. bd.)
3869225831 (hd. bd.)
9789665007913 (Ukrainian Edition)
9665007912 (Ukrainian Edition)

Subject:

Mosaics Ukraine Pictorial works.
Mural painting and decoration Ukraine Pictorial works.
Socialist realism in art Ukraine Pictorial works.
Mosaïque Ukraine Ouvrages illustrés.
Réalisme socialiste dans l'art Ukraine Ouvrages illustrés.
Buildings
Mosaics
Mural painting and decoration
Socialist realism in art
Ukraine Buildings, structures, etc.
Ukraine

Form/genre:

Illustrated works

Added entries:

Balashova, O. N. (Olʹga N.), author, editor.
Lizaveta, German, author, editor.
Strikha, Iaroslava, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299393
Call No.: BIB 245482
Status: Available

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