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Decommunized. Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics by Yevgen Nikiforov - 2017

by Yevgen Nikiforov

Decommunized. Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics by Yevgen Nikiforov - 2017
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Decommunized. Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics

by Yevgen Nikiforov

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Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2017. Edited by Olga Balashova and Lizaveta German. English Text. Berlin, 2017; clothbound, pp. 250, 200 col. ill., cm 24x28,5. The book presents the fi rst comprehensive study of Soviet monumental mosaics, outstanding artifacts 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 35,000km of Ukrainian roads and visited 109 cities and villages to discover more than 1,000surviving mosaics. The book includes approximately 200 unique photo graphs of monumental panels: offi cially sanctioned gigantic images of workers, farmers, astronauts and athletes of colored smalto or ceramics illustrate Soviet life as it was meant to be represented, drawing paral lels to the over arching themes inherent within a more widely known Soviet archi tectural project, namely the Moscow metro. Some of the pieces featured here were demolished shortly after the photographs were taken: they fell afoul of the so-called decom munization 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 testi mony, and show a new important page in 20th-century art history.
  • Bookseller Libro Co. Italia IT (IT)
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  • Binding Hardcover
  • ISBN 10 3869225831
  • ISBN 13 9783869225838
  • Publisher DOM Publishers
  • Place of Publication Berlin
  • Date Published 2017
  • Pages 250
  • Keywords DOM Publishers Berlin Yevgen Nikiforov
Ukraine: Art for Architecture
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Ukraine: Art for Architecture

by Nikiforov, Yevgen

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Art for Architecture: Ukraine: Soviet Modernist Mosaics 1960 to 1990

Art for Architecture: Ukraine: Soviet Modernist Mosaics 1960 to 1990

by Yevgen Nikiforov

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Paperback / softback. New. In the times when the Ukrainian art sphere was regulated by the Soviet institutions, local monumental and decorative arts existed at the frontier of the Party's propaganda and the artistic thirst to experiments. Nowadays, Ukrainian mosaics are wrested out of the architectural context of the country in both literal and metaphorical ways. The artworks are liquidated from the buildings they were specifically created for and indiscriminately despised as ideological pieces of no value. Furthermore, in legal terms mosaics are not defined as objects of art that makes them unguarded in the face of the decommunization process. Initially incepted as a guide, this book is an equally beneficial companion for the journey through space (in the context of the geographical area of modern Ukraine) and hitchhiking through time (in terms of Ukrainian cultural history). It incorporates the selection of Ukrainian mosaics which undermines the simplified perspective on the Soviet art heritage… Read More
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