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Category : Folk art
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Ukrainian Antiquities in Private Collections
Author: Ukrainian Antiquities in Private Collections
Author: Ukrainian Icons
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ISBN: 9789667845438
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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For the first time, 250 works by highly professional and folk artists from the 13th to the early 19th centuries are featured in this elegant album, representing a diverse array of times and styles. As part of private collections in different Ukrainian cities--Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Cherkasy, and Poltava--these works of great cultural value have been previously inaccessible to a broader circle of enthusiasts. Finely complementing one another, these masterpieces clearly illustrate the milestones of old Ukrainian icon painting over 500 years.
Ukrainian Icons
Author: Ukraine on Its Way to Europe
Author: Juliane Besters-DilgerPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783631588895
Category : Aufsatzsammlung
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Orange Revolution in November/December 2004 has unambiguously determined the future orientation of Ukraine. Joining the European Union is its top priority. In this volume, Europe is not treated as a geographical or historical term, but as a normative concept which includes respect for human and civil rights, rule of law, division of powers, parliamentary democracy, open and pluralistic society. This publication has two aims: a critical analysis and evaluation of the efforts of Ukraine under President Yushchenko to bring about a change in direction toward a rapprochement to the European Union (2005-2008), and the identification of cultural constants of the Ukrainian society which either hinder or are conducive to the rapprochement.
Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians
Author: John-Paul HimkaPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487530609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Few subjects in Christianity have inspired artists as much as the last judgment. Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians examines images of the last judgment from the fifteenth century to the present in the Carpathian mountain region of Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, and Romania, as a way to consider history free from the traditional frameworks and narratives of nations. Over ten years, John-Paul Himka studied last-judgment images throughout the Carpathians and found a distinctive and transnational blending of Gothic, Byzantine, and Novgorodian art in the region. Piecing together the story of how these images were produced and how they developed, Himka traces their origins on linden boards and their evolution on canvas and church walls. Tracing their origins with monks, he follows these images' increased popularity as they were commissioned by peasants and shepherds whose tastes so shocked bishops that they ordered the destruction of depictions of sexual themes and grotesque forms of torture. A richly illustrated and detailed account of history through a style of art, Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians will find a receptive audience with art historians, religious scholars, and slavists.
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Author: Danylo Husar StrukPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442651253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2572
Book Description
Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora.
Pamphlets - Collection about Antiquities of Ukraine
Author: Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe
Author: Larissa M. L. Zaleska OnyshkevychPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317473779
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 599
Book Description
The concept of a 'return to Europe' has been integral to the movement for Ukrainian national rebirth since the nineteenth century. While the goal of a more fully reformed politics remains elusive, numerous expressions of Ukrainian culture continue to develop in the European spirit. This wide-ranging book explores Ukraine's European cultural connection, especially as it has been reestablished since the country achieved independence in 1991. The contributors discusses many aspects of Ukraine's contemporary culture - history, politics, and religion in Part I; literary culture in Part II; and language, popular culture, and the arts in Part III. What emerges is a fascinating picture of a young country grappling with its divided past and its colonial heritage, yet asserting its voice and preferences amid the diverse and at times conflicting realities of the contemporary political scene. Europe becomes a powerful point of reference, a measure against which the situation in post-independence Ukraine is gouged and debated. This framework allows for a better understanding of the complexities deeply ingrained in the social fabric of Ukrainian society.
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