Ukraine. Art for Architecture. Soviet Modernist Mosaics from 1960 to 1990.
Across Ukraine, monumental mosaics once formed an integral part of the architecture of public life: covering façades, interiors and civic spaces with extraordinary colour, scale and invention.
Created between 1960 and 1990, these works emerged within the constraints of the Soviet cultural system, yet frequently reveal an artistic language far richer and more individual than their ideological context might suggest.
Ukraine. Art for Architecture brings together a remarkable selection of these site-specific works through the documentary photography of Yevgen Nikiforov and the research of art historian Polina Baitsym. Moving across geography as well as cultural history, the book considers the artists, imagery and circumstances behind the mosaics while documenting an architectural art form increasingly separated from the buildings for which it was created.
Both visual archive and critical study, it offers a compelling perspective on a distinctive chapter of twentieth-century Ukrainian art and architecture.
Details
Authors
Yevgen Nikiforov & Polina Baitsym
Publisher
DOM publishers
Period covered
1960–1990
Format
Softcover
Pages
300
Images
314
Dimensions
5.3 × 9.7 inches
ISBN
978-3-86922-601-9
Place
Ukraine
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