‘The Art of Ukraine’ A book about Ukrainian art will be published in a popular series by Thames and Hudson

The Artbook “The Art of Ukraine” by Ukrainian art critic and curator Alisa Lozhkina will be published in “World of Art,” the well-known series of books on art history by Thames and Hudson, according to a post on the author’s Facebook page.

Based on Lozhkina’s “Permanent Revolution: Art in Ukraine. 20th to the early 21st Century,” “The Art of Ukraine” is adapted for a broad international audience, offering a concise and restructured version of the original work. This publication will be the third by Thames and Hudson focusing on Ukrainian art, following “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900-1930s” and “Treasures of Ukraine. A Nation’s Cultural Heritage.”

Reflecting on the global recognition of Ukrainian art, Lozhkina said, “Once, about ten years ago, I was really happy to come across the name of Kharkiv photographer Serhii Bratkov in a similar book about contemporary photography. It was something incredible. Our author was finally ‘there.’ Unfortunately, the ‘here’ and ‘there’ has long been haunting Ukrainian art globally. We were invisible marginals, representatives of an uninteresting outskirts who always had to prove ourselves to someone.”

After the beginning of the full-scale Russia’s invasion, representatives of Thames and Hudson invited Alisa Lozhkina to write two chapters for the book “Treasures of Ukraine,” which was already being prepared by the publishing house. The art critic then offered her manuscript, translated into English.

Artists, collectors and museum professionals helped to prepare the project. The cover of the book features a work by Ukrainian artist, teacher and a cubofuturism theoretician Oleksandr Bohomazov, provided by the National Art Museum.

The book was translated by Nathan Jeffers; Roman Ivashkiv from the University of Urbana-Champaign in Illinois was the scientific editor. The editor of the book is Ali Kinsella, assistant researcher — Anna Lugovska. Book’s photo editor Maksym Bilous worked on coordinating the illustrative material while being on the front lines with the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

“I am proud of Maksym and all the heroes who are defending Ukraine. I hope that our efforts are not in vain, and I am happy that more people will now learn about Ukrainian art,” said Alisa Lozhkina.

Main image: Alisa Lozhkina

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