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Caricatures \/ edited by Bohdan Pevnyi; introductory article by Ivan Keivan; artistic design by Bohdan Pevnyi; copy editor Ivan Korovytsky; English translation by Daria Vynnytska.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[South Brunswick, New Jersey]: St. Sophia Publishers, [1981]. — illus., portr. — Parallel text in Ukrainian and English. — Published with funds from Tetiana z Mykhailivskikh Tsymbal. — Library of Congress Card Number 81-53047. — Printed in U.S.A.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSquare-format publication in a green cloth binding; on the front cover, a gold-stamped image of Tsymbal (a singer with a musical instrument on a bench, with the monogram “Ц.”) and the title in Ukrainian and English. Cream-colored endpapers. The gilding on the title shows minor rubbing and darkening, most noticeable in the words “КАРИКАТУРИ” and “CARICATURES”; light rubbing along the edges and corners of the binding, occasional spots on the cloth. The block is firm, the pages are clean, without inscriptions or stamps. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication has historical and cultural value and is of collector interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album collects the political caricatures of Viktor Tsymbal—a graphic artist who earned a living in Buenos Aires creating advertising posters for Argentine, American, and European firms, received six awards for them, and drew satire on the Soviet regime for the Ukrainian émigré press; his caricatures were published, among others, in “Ukrainska Trybuna” and “Mitla.” The tone is set by the page containing the introductory article: a Soviet general in a cap bites into a walnut labeled “Greece.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eViktor Tsymbal (1901–1968; the Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies lists his birth year as 1902) was born in the village of Stupychne in Zvenyhorodshchyna and served as a soldier in the UNR Army; in the introductory article, Keivan writes about his participation in the Student Kurin, associated with the Battle of Kruty. In 1920, he was interned in Poland; in 1923, he moved to Czechoslovakia and studied in Prague at the Higher School of Art and Industry and the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts, and illustrated children’s books published by the Lviv publishing house “Svit Dytyny.” In 1928, he emigrated to Argentina; in 1960, to the U.S., where he worked in Detroit and died in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album was published thirteen years after the artist’s death with funds from his widow, Tetiana z Mykhailivskikh Tsymbal, — the second posthumous book about Tsymbal after the monograph “Viktor Tsymbal: Painter and Graphic Artist,” edited by Svyatoslav Hordynskyi (New York, 1972). The album was compiled and designed by graphic artist Bohdan Pevnyi, and the introduction was written by art historian Ivan Keivan. 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Among them are Lesya Ukrainka’s original carol “Oh, in Paradise, in Paradise, Near the Danube,” an ancient St. Sophia’s carol, the Baroque “Do Not Weep, Rachel,” and the Plascun carol “A Star Flashed in the Sky,” which is sung as the Bethlehem flame is passed from person to person.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe carol and the festive song are perhaps the only Ukrainian ritual genres that have reached us alive, without reconstruction: the same texts are sung in families, choirs, and at nativity plays. 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Here are the woodcuts and wood engravings \"We Became Free Men on Guard,\" \"To Arms,\" \"Soldier with a Submachine Gun,\" \"Oles,\" \"Portrait of a Soldier,\" two gouache and ink drawings \"In Memory,\" and four bofony—tickets for the combat fund of the OUN worth 20 and 50 krb and the UPA worth 100 and 500 krb. According to the list of works, several 1945 engravings were printed on cigarette paper, and one in color woodcut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNil Khasavych (1905–1952) was a graphic artist and painter from Volyn. 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Over four hundred of these sheets — watercolors, ink drawings, pen and pencil drawings, linocuts — are now preserved in the Andriy Sheptytskyi National Museum in Lviv.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe value of the publication is twofold: the ethnographic documentation of types of dress, many of which were already out of use by the time of printing, and the artistic quality of the plates themselves. The album remains one of the basic sources on the folk costume of Western Ukraine; in 2018, its material was republished in the expanded album-catalogue \"A Priori\". Complete sets of the first edition are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ARCHIVEVAM RARE BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64537107267955,"sku":"SKU-00172","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15527890485619.jpg?v=1793985201"},{"product_id":"kulchytska-olena-albom-kyiv-1969","title":"Kulchytska Olena: album. Kyiv, 1969","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“It is no wonder that in the symbolic composition of her ex-libris she depicted herself as a hardworking bee tenderly embracing a delicate flower.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlena Kulchytska: album \/ compiler and author of the introductory article A. O. Viunyk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKyiv: “Mystetstvo,” 1969. — 58 reproductions according to the list of illustrations. — (Artists of Soviet Ukraine). — Price according to the edition 1 hr 29 kop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s binding: on the front cover, a color reproduction of “Winter Sun”; at the spine, a black band with the white inscription “O. Kulchytska”; the back cover is black, lacquered, with the “Mystetstvo” publisher’s mark. Scratches and indented cracks in the lacquered layer on the back cover, wear down to the white paper along the edges and corners of both covers, chipping of the black coating at the top and bottom of the spine, natural yellowing of the paper along the edges, a trace of a purple stamp on the edge of one of the sheets. The text block is firm and clean, without inscriptions. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe edition has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album presents a retrospective with 58 reproductions — oil, watercolor, etching, aquatint, woodcut, linocut, linogravure, enamel — from “Winter Sun” (1903–1906) to watercolors from the late 1940s. Among the reproduced sheets are the enamel triptych “Art,” “Science,” “History” (1906), “Sunflowers” (1908), “The Moloch of War” (1915), the woodcut “T. G. Shevchenko” (1920), the illustrations “The Fish Danced with the Crayfish” and “The Crow in Peacock Feathers” (1923), “Hutsul Fun” (1935), “The Forest Spirit” (1936), “Hamelia,” as well as the artist’s own ex-libris and a 1917 self-portrait. The introductory article is accompanied by a photographic portrait of Kulchytska.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOlena Lvivna Kulchytska (1877–1967) was born in Berezhan in the Ternopil region. She received her art education in the private studio of Stanislav Batovsky and Roman Bratkovsky in Lviv, and from 1903 at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, where she mastered oil and watercolor painting, drawing, printmaking, enamel, and mosaic. From 1908, she lived in Lviv; from 1909, she exhibited alongside Western Ukrainian artists around Ivan Trush; she taught for almost thirty years in Peremyshl. From 1948, she was a professor at the Ivan Fedorov Ukrainian Polytechnic Institute in Lviv, a People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1956), and a laureate of the T. G. Shevchenko Prize (1967).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album was published by the Kyiv publishing house “Mystetstvo” two years after the artist’s death, in the series “Artists of Soviet Ukraine.” The compiler and author of the introductory article is Andrii Viunyk, an art historian and researcher of Ukrainian graphics. 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Kyiv: album of architectural monuments of our capital = The Album of the Architectural Monuments of the Ukrainian Capital Kiev \/ cover by Petro Andrusiv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAugsburg: published by the “Samopomich” cooperative in Augsburg, 1946. — 32 p.: illus. — 21.5 × 15.5 cm. — Bilingual Ukrainian and English text. On the verso of the title page: “Printed with the permission of UNRRA Team 114.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher’s cover of brick-red paper: on the front cover, a drawing by Petro Andrusiv shows the Apostle Andrew placing a cross on the hills of Kyiv, printed in black and red, with the title at the bottom in stylized uncial script; the back cover is plain. The text block is fastened with two metal staples. Loss of paper in the upper right corner of both sides of the cover, rubbing and soiling along the edges, minor tears. Rust stains on the title page from contact with the cover, natural yellowing of the paper. Pencil marks on the back cover. The text block is firm, the pages are clean, and there is no loss of text. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value as an example of Ukrainian camp literature published during the DP era and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album consists of a preface and an illustrated section with bilingual captions. The preface begins with the legend of the Apostle Andrew, who placed a cross on the hills of Kyiv, and continues through the era of the princes to the destruction of the city listed below. The illustrations show the monument to Prince Volodymyr the Great by Kłodt von Jungensburg (1853), the Vsesvyatska Church above the Economic Gate of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, built by Hetman Ivan Mazepa in the 1690s, the bell tower of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’s Church of the Resurrection by Ivan Hryhorovych-Barsky, the opera house designed by Schretter, Velyka-Volodmyrska Street, and a panorama of Podil with the funicular from Volodymyr Hill. The captions also record losses: beneath the bell tower of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’s Church of the Resurrection, it reads “built in 1760, destroyed in 1937.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOleksa Povstenko (1902–1973) was an architect, art historian, and museum figure. In 1941–1943, he headed the architectural-historical reserve “Saint Sophia Cathedral” in Kyiv. In exile in Germany, he studied the monuments of Kyiv; following this album, he published “Frescoes and Mosaics of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” (Munich, 1947), “Historical Plans of Kyiv,” co-authored with Petro Kurennyi (Augsburg, UVAN, 1947), and “History of Ukrainian Art” (Nuremberg, 1948). From 1949, in the United States, he worked for many years as an architect of the Capitol in Washington; his final work was “Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv” (New York, 1954).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published in Augsburg by the Ukrainian “Samopomich” cooperative with the permission of UNRRA Team 114—that is, within the system of camps for displaced persons, where print runs were small, paper was cheap, and distribution was among their own. The cover was designed by the painter and graphic artist Petro Andrusiv (1906–1981). 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(color and black-and-white). — Format 84×108\/16 (approximately 20.5 × 26 cm); publisher’s data states 21 × 27 cm — size should be measured from the copy. Coated paper, offset printing. Conditional print run. 24.36 sheets. Print run of 1,200 copies. ISBN 978-617-629-255-5.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s binding, with an illustrated dust jacket: the front cover features a green background with a stylized floral ornament, a portrait of the artist, the author’s name in yellow and the title in white; the back cover is plain, with an ISBN sticker in the upper corner. Endpapers feature a printed floral ornament in olive-gold and burgundy tones on a beige background. The dust jacket is fully intact, without tears, scuffs, or fading. The back cover has a rubbed oval spot with a glossy patch on the lamination, and the edges of the film show minor creases. The text block is firm, the paper is clean, with no inscriptions or stamps. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe print run of 1,200 copies is sold out; the edition is no longer available for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoman Yatsiv’s monograph is currently the most comprehensive study of Robert Lisovskyi, a graphic artist whose signs were seen by millions of people who did not know the artist’s name. The study is preceded by “A Word About Father” by his daughter Zoya Lisovska-Nyzhankivska, which includes family details not found in any reference book. It then covers the stages of his creative biography, from his family environment in Kam’yanske and his studies in Myrgorod and Kyiv to his work in Lviv, Berlin, Prague, Rome, and London; composition, artistic style, and the concept of a national typeface are examined separately. The text is illustrated with reproductions of works and photographs from the Lisovska-Nyzhankivska family archive, some of which are published for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Lisovskyi (1893–1882) was a student of Mykhailo Boichuk and Heorhii Narbut at the Ukrainian State Academy of Arts and later became an emigrant. He designed the combination of a layered lily with a trident, the OUN emblem “trident with a sword,” the covers of Ulas Samchuk’s “Maria” and Ivan Irlyavskyi’s “The Voice of the Silver Land,” and the magazine “Moloda Ukraina.” In London, from 1963, he headed the Board of Trustees of the Taras Shevchenko Library and Museum. 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Price according to colophon: 1 krb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the original illustrated cover: on the first page — the decorative composition “Potters at the Market,” on the second — the “Rainbow” plate, on the third — the “Sun” plate, on the fourth — the “Beast” candleholder. The block is stapled and holds firmly. Rubbing and minor soiling on the cover, wear along the edges and spine, minor losses of the paint layer at the corners of the front page. The paper is clean, without stains or inscriptions. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication has historical, cultural, and art-historical value and is of collecting interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue opens with an inscription from the last Egyptian pyramid, built of bricks — the same text Padalka had personally inscribed on the body of his pitcher, and from this gesture the entire book begins: clay as a material that does not yield to stone. This is followed by Nina Kertenko’s introductory article and a list of works by year — the sculptural compositions “The Forest Spirit and Lukash” and “The Forest Spirit” (1971), “Potters at the Market” (1974), “The Sickle Reaping Wheat” (1976), “The Hound” (1980), “Kyiv, Shchek, Khoriv and Their Sister Lypid” (1981); decorative sculpture from 1969–1977 — “The Bison,” “The Proud Swan,” “The Devil “Bureaucrat”,” “The Dragon “Peace”,” “The Dog “Hound”,” “The Rhinoceros “Giant””; color and tonal plates of utilitarian pottery — a pitcher, sugar bowl, jug, and “coins,” and the “Evening” vase. Almost all the works are made of stoneware with reduction-fired glazes, with the dimensions of each work given in centimeters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYakiv Ivanovych Padalka (b. 1926) — a Kyiv master of artistic ceramics, from a hereditary family of potters from Mezhyrych in the Sumy region. His great-grandfather Fedot Romanovych Padalka (1850–1914) ran a ceramic workshop in the village founded by the Kapnisty, exhibited sculptural vessels and pitchers at exhibitions in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Rostov, and won a silver medal at the 1887 craft exhibition in Kharkiv. The craft passed from generation to generation: Yakiv’s first teacher was his father, Ivan Andriyovych, who worked at the Sumy-Stepanivka Pottery and Tile Factory; the daily quota — at first ten cups, later fifty — the boy threw on the wheel, and his father made the handles for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue was published in a print run of 1,100 copies as a publication of the Union of Artists of Ukraine for the master’s solo exhibition — a year before the collapse of the USSR and long before Padalka began to be exhibited at the Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art. 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In the early sixties he returned to the woodcut, his first love, and it was the woodcuts that brought him wide recognition. Because so many canvases were destroyed or painted over, the decade 1950–1960 remained his least known and most varied period — and this catalogue is one of the few illustrated sources for it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589810368883,"sku":"SKU-00189","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528936833395.jpg?v=1793988338"},{"product_id":"butovych-mykola-monohrafiia-niu-iork-1956","title":"Butovych Mykola: monograph. New York, 1956","description":"\u003cp\u003eM. Butovich = N. 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Vol. I is textual: methodological preface, followed by the ancient, early Christian, medieval princely, and transitional periods (Gothic and Renaissance of the 14th–16th centuries), Baroque, Classicism, and Art Nouveau, up to the churches and public buildings of the Ukrainian emigration in America; each chapter includes a bibliography, and the text is supplemented by photographic plates. Vol. II is an album of the author’s own drawings: ancient tombs and ornaments, wooden churches, castles, Kyiv Classicism, the Lviv Opera, folk housing, and woodcarvings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolodymyr Sichynsky (1894–1962) — architect, graphic artist, art historian, and bibliographer, full member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. Born in Kamianets-Podilskyi, he worked in Lviv and Prague, and from 1949 — in New York; author of over six hundred works and designer of over seventy books. 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The reproductions span more than a century: Mykola Ivasyuk’s “Bohdan Khmelnytskyi’s Entry into Kyiv” (1912) and “Portrait of Oleksandr Myshuga” (1925); Oleks Novakovskyi’s “Woman in a Kimono” (1910); Leonid Perfetskyi’s “Battle” (1921); Vasyl Dyadynyuk’s tempera paintings “Varangians” and “Prince Roman of Halych” (1934); Yakiv Hnyzdovskyi’s “Cabbage” and “Corn”; Fedor Humenyuk’s “Sorochyn Yar.” Each caption is repeated in English, noting the owner of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSviatoslav Hordynskyi (1906–1993) was a painter, graphic artist, poet, and art historian and one of the leading interpreters of Ukrainian art in the diaspora; here he served as both exhibition curator and book editor. The works were photographed by Ivan Heretshuk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue was published by the Canadian-Ukrainian Art Foundation itself—a Toronto institution with its own gallery on Bloor Street—in a first edition of one thousand copies printed at the local Harmony Printing press. Such catalogues were produced specifically for the event in small quantities and never made their way into libraries in Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589837599091,"sku":"SKU-00327","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528948138355.jpg?v=1793988339"},{"product_id":"hrinchenko-istoriia-ukrainskoi-muzyky-1961","title":"Hrynchenko Mykola. History of Ukrainian Music. Second Edition. New York, 1961","description":"\u003cp\u003eMykola Hrynchenko. History of Ukrainian Music. 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Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fundamental work on Ukrainian ethnography, of historical and cultural value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe monograph traces the formation and development of Ukrainian folk clothing from the era of Kyivan Rus through feudal-serfdom relations to capitalism. The author considers clothing as an indicator of the development of the people's material culture and artistic creativity and provides an analysis of the complexes of peasant clothing of individual ethnographic regions — Polissia, the Dnieper Basin, the South, Podillia, and the Carpathians. The text is accompanied by numerous photographs, drawings, and color plates of clothing, embroidery, headwear, and footwear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKateryna Ivanivna Mateiko (1910–1995) — ethnographer, long-time employee of the Museum of Ethnography and Art Industry in Lviv, researcher of folk clothing and pottery. The reviewers of the publication were H. H. Hromov and V. I. 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On the title page, the library call number “85.123(2Ук) А-28” is written in pencil, and there is a rectangular stamp of the State Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art with inventory number 6081, crossed out in red ink. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe manuscript was submitted for typesetting in June 1991, still under the Ukrainian SSR, and approved for publication in March 1992 — already with the approval of the Ministry of Education of independent Ukraine. The textbook consists of three parts: morphology — a system of types, from weaving, carpet-making, and embroidery to artistic glass, metal, paper-cutting, and pysanka art; the history of decorative and applied arts in Ukraine; composition as a science of the regularities according to which a folk object is constructed. The color plates reproduce embroidery and weaving, carved and painted wooden products, and ceramics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was written by three Lviv researchers. Mykhailo Stankevych (1948–2017) — Doctor of Art History, later Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, author of the monographs “Ukrainian Paper-Cutting” and “Ukrainian Artistic Woodwork of the 16th–20th Centuries”; it was here that he proposed a typology of types and genres of decorative art — groups, subgroups, and types — which was later used by researchers of textiles, embroidery, ceramics, and beadwork. Raisa Zakharchuk-Chuhai, a researcher of Ukrainian embroidery and weaving, headed the Department of Folk Arts and Crafts of the Museum of Ethnography and Art Industry in Lviv in the 1980s; together with Yevhen Antonovych, she published another textbook in 2012 — “Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe copy comes from the library of the State Museum of Ukrainian Folk Decorative Art — an institution for which such a book was a working reference; the stamp was crossed out when it was removed from the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589845528947,"sku":"SKU-00429","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528953676147.jpg?v=1793989371"},{"product_id":"butnyk-siverskyi-mykhailo-bilas-albom-kyiv-1972","title":"Butnyk-Siverskyi Borys. Mykhailo Bilas: album. 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The back cover shows uneven soiling, stains, surface wear, and small dark spots; the paper covering is creased along the spine. The inside of the front cover and the endpaper have brown stains; the first few leaves show isolated foxing and fingerprints; the paper has natural yellowing, while the color plates are clean. The text block is firm. The title page of the series bears a purple “Printed in the Soviet Union” stamp. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album was published in 1972, shortly after Mykhailo Bilas’s solo exhibitions in Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Kolomyia in 1971. Borys Butnyk-Siverskyi’s introductory article traces the artist’s development from embroidery, which according to the author marked the beginning of his creative work, to the thematic rugs “Morning” (1960), “Hutsulshchyna” (1961), and “How I Saw Off My Beloved from Home” (1966). It also explains the origin of the numerous dancing dolls and the rhythm of the multi-figure compositions: from 1944 to 1948, Bilas worked as a singer and dancer at the Drohobych Musical Drama Theater, and until 1953, he studied vocals at the Lviv Music School. The color plates show rugs, appliqué works, and dolls in traditional dress; the text is presented in three languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMykhailo Yakymovych Bilas (1924–2016) was born in the village of Krekhovychi in the Stanislav region, now the Ivano-Frankivsk region. A decorative artist, he worked in the techniques of tapestry weaving, rug-making, bedspread-making, and appliqué, and made dolls and decorative flowers. He graduated from the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Art (1959) and from 1959 to 1973 was the senior and chief artist of the Houses of Fashion Models in Lviv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv; from 1967, he was a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. People’s Artist of Ukraine (1995); the artist’s museum in Truskavets was opened in 1992, during his lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe author of the introductory article and compiler Borys Butnyk-Siverskyi (1901–1983) was an art historian, historian, and ethnographer, and also compiled the album of M. Tymchenko (Kyiv, 1974). 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Issue 29, December 1989 \/ editorial board: Mykhailo Dmytrenko, Vasyl Doroshenko, Petro Mehyk, Stepan Rozhok, Volodymyr Shyprykevych; technical editor Petro Mehyk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhiladelphia: published by the Philadelphia Branch of the Ukrainian Association for Cultural and Educational Relations, 1989. — Ill., incl. color. — (Ukrainian Association for Cultural and Educational Relations. Philadelphia Branch). — ISSN 0550-0850. — Print run: 1,000 copies. — Color reproductions, offset printing and binding — Myron Babchuk Printing House (Printing Methods, Inc., Rochester); printing — Orphanage Printing House, Philadelphia. Graphic design and initials by Vasyl Doroshenko. Illustration captions in Ukrainian and English. 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The main feature of the issue is Volodymyr Popovych's survey \"Neo-Byzantinists and Pseudo-Byzantinists in Ukrainian Icon Painting\" with reproductions of works by Petro Kholodnyi (Mold.), Myron Bylinskyi, Maria Dolnytska, and others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNext — a review of the graphic design of Ukrainian book publications, \"Art Chronicle\" and a sketch for Mykhailo Dmytrenko's 80th birthday with his mosaic on the pediment of the Ukrainian Credit Union in Warren (Michigan). 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Next is the article “Art Publications in Ukraine: Observations of an Inquisitive Reader” on how Soviet critics omitted diaspora artists, and on the six-volume “History of Ukrainian Art” edited by Mykola Bazhan: the eight-thousand-copy print run was not allowed into bookstores, it was sold by subscription, and a large portion was sold abroad for foreign currency. On pp. 27–36 — Volodymyr Popovych’s essay on the graphics of Robert Lisovskyi (1893–1982), a memoir of a meeting in London in 1955, with a photograph of the professors of the Ukrainian Studio of Plastic Arts in Prague.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe journal was published by the Philadelphia Branch of the Ukrainian Artists’ Association; it was edited by Petro Mehnyk (1899–1992) — painter and graphic artist, graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, who lived in Philadelphia from 1949, where he headed the Ukrainian Art Studio. “Notes” was published from 1963 to 1990, with thirty issues, and was the main chronicle of the artistic life of the Ukrainian diaspora: art history articles, monographic essays, reviews, exhibition reviews, obituaries. 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Wooden Churches of the Chełm and Podlasie Regions: 15 illustrations in the text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKraków: Ukrainian Publishing House, 1941. — 15 ill. — (Past and Present; Part 15). — Printed by the \"Pospieszna\" Printing House, Kraków, Reichssstrasse 34.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublisher's cover of toned paper with a fibrous texture: on the front cover — a brown-printed drawing of a three-roofed, three-aisled church; on the back — the publisher's mark of the Ukrainian Publishing House. The block's paper has natural yellowing. Several small spots in the upper corner of the back cover; a small tear at the bottom near the spine; a tear at the top edge of p. 11 near the spine without loss of text; darkening from staples in the spine area. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector's interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe study was written shortly after 1938, when the Polish administration, under police guard, was systematically destroying Orthodox churches in the Chełm and Podlasie regions — the author explicitly refers to this campaign and writes that the study of the monuments of the Zabužzhia region is already \"somewhat belated.\" He describes the types of wooden churches in these lands: single-aisled churches under a gabled roof with a central turret (Zheščynka, Horostyt near Volodav, 1786), three-roofed churches (Vokiv, the straw-thatched Church of the Transfiguration in Sychyn), churches with an octagonal tower (Horodok nad Bugom), and also bell towers — from four-pillared to multi-story with a gallery (Holeshiv, Kodenets, Hanna). He also discusses the \"Tonal\" churches, which the Tsarist government had planted in Zabužzhia since the 1830s according to the album of the court architect Ton, and lost monuments, such as the three-aisled church in Tyshivtsi na Zamlinni. The author's conclusion: there is no distinct type unique to these lands — the churches of Zabužzhia are part of a broader northwestern tradition related to Polissia. The text contains 15 pen-and-ink drawings of churches.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonid Maslov (1909–1943) — an architect and researcher who is called the first historian of Volyn architecture. Son of Mykola Maslov, director of the Chancellery of the Little Council of Ministers of the UNR; after the defeat of the UNR, the family settled in Lutsk. After graduating from the Polytechnic Institute, he worked in Liuboml, later as an architect-engineer in Rivne, and in his free time surveyed and photographed churches and wrote for Ukrainian periodicals. His \"Architecture of Old Lutsk\" was published in 1939. On August 17, 1943, Maslov was shot by the Germans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book was published as the 15th issue of the \"Past and Present\" series by the Kraków-based Ukrainian Publishing House — the main Ukrainian publishing house of the General Government, which then included the Chełm and Podlasie regions; it was printed by the Kraków-based \"Pospieszna\" Printing House at the same address as the publishing house. 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Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA manual on Ukrainian folk stage dance, compiled by the man who created this canon. In the introduction, Avramenko explains that he founded his first dance school on January 25, 1921, in the Kalysh camp for interned soldiers of the Ukrainian People’s Republic army. This is followed by a brief essay on the place of dance in Ukrainian culture and descriptions of dances of his own choreography, from the ceremonial “Easter Haiivka” to “Hrechanyky,” with step-by-step “patterns,” arm positions, and photographs of performers. The Ukrainian title promises eighteen dances, while the parallel English title lists ten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Avramenko (1895–1981) was a choreographer, actor in Mykola Sadovsky’s troupe, and film producer. He moved to Canada in 1925 and later to the United States; he founded numerous dance schools, performed at the Metropolitan Opera (1931) and the White House (1935) with Oleksandr Koshits’s choir, and directed the film operas “Natalka Poltavka,” “The Zaporozhian Cossack Beyond the Danube,” and “Marusia” between 1936 and 1938. His productions defined the face of Ukrainian dance in North America until the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was published at the author’s expense and printed by the National Publishers in Winnipeg. The illustrations are autobiographical: Avramenko with Sadovsky, Yevhen Chikalenko, Modest Levytsky, and Mykhailo Obidnyi on the day of their departure for Canada in 1925; Koshits’s choir at Washington’s bicentennial celebration in 1932; the Slavic Festival in Chicago; and the “Glory to Canada” exhibitions in Ottawa on February 1–2, 1946, the proceeds of which—$1066.77—the author donated to aid displaced persons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589851754867,"sku":"SKU-00513","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528959312243.jpg?v=1793989367"},{"product_id":"svientsitska-vira-spadshchyna-vikiv-lviv-1990","title":"Svianchytskyi Vira, Sydor Oleh. Heritage of Ages: Ukrainian Painting of the 14th–18th Centuries. Lviv, 1990","description":"\u003cp\u003eV. I. Svientsevska, O. F. Sydor. 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The publication consists mainly of 64 plates of reproductions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVira Svientsevska (1913–1991) was an art historian and the daughter of Hilarion Svientsevsky, who headed the National Museum in Lviv for nearly half a century. She authored the monograph “Ivan Rutkovych and the Emergence of Realism in 17th-Century Ukrainian Painting” (1966), the section on 14th–16th-century painting in the six-volume “History of Ukrainian Art,” and a dictionary of the painters and sculptors of Zhovkva; she was posthumously awarded the Shevchenko Prize in 1995. Oleh Sydor (1945–2022) was an art historian and museum professional who inherited Svientsevska’s museum experience; from 1991, he headed the Department of Ancient Art at the National Museum in Lviv and studied the work of Yov Kondzelevych. 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Vol. 4, Book 1: Art of the Late 18th – First Half of the 19th Century \/ Main Editorial Board: M. P. Bazhan (Editor-in-Chief) [and others]; Editorial Team for the First Book of Volume Four: Ya. P. Zatenatskyi (Responsible Editor), H. O. Lebediev, F. P. Shevchenko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKyiv: [Main Editorial Office of the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR], 1969. — Illustrated by the Kyiv Book Factory “Zhovten.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s binding in light beige coarsely woven cloth; the front cover features a colorful folk-style ornamental design. Terracotta endpapers. The cloth of the spine has darkened slightly, with a dark stain near the top edge; a paper label is affixed at the bottom of the spine. The text block is firm, and the paper is clean. 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The chapters are devoted to architecture, sculpture, easel and monumental painting, theatrical and decorative arts, graphic arts, and decorative and applied arts—folk painting, carpet-making, textiles, embroidery, ceramics, Bohemian glass, porcelain, and faience. Separate chapters on Taras Shevchenko as a painter and Shevchenko as a graphic artist were written by Ya. P. Zatenatskyi; other contributors include P. Musiyenko, A. Viunyk, D. Kravych, Ya. Zapasko, M. Kunytska, and Yu. Lashchuk. The book concludes with a bibliography, name, subject, and geographical indexes, and a list of illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe main editorial board was headed by Mykola Bazhan (1904–1983), a poet, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, and editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia. 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I want the world to know that the liberation struggle continues, that Ukrainians are fighting.” — Nil Khasavych.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNil Khasavych (1905–1952): album: dedicated to the 105th anniversary of his birth \/ Gallery of Ukrainian Military Uniforms; compiled and introduced by Bohuslav Liubiv; foreword by Yuriy Okhrimenko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: Panorama Publishing House, 2010. — 73 pp.: illus. — Album (landscape) format, approximately 21 × 29.5 cm. — Print run of 1,000 copies. — ISBN 978-966-8084-81-2.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal publisher’s cover in red lacquered cardboard: black spine band with the emblem of the Gallery of Ukrainian Military Uniforms; front cover featuring a woodcut of a partisan scene, the artist’s name in a handwritten font, and the dates “1905–1952.” The text block is printed on heavy kraft paper in a single black pass—in the style of clandestine printing. Slight creasing of the cardboard at the top and bottom corners of the front cover; edges barely rubbed; text block firm and clean, without inscriptions, stamps, or underlining. Back cover features a barcode sticker of the publication. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication has historical and cultural value; its design is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album is compiled from works exhibited at the Gallery of Ukrainian Military Uniforms in Lviv in 2007 and 2010—one hundred and five works by Nil Khasavych. 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A laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize (1999), he exhibited in Canada, the United States, Israel, and China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe publication’s text consists of an in-depth article by Diana Klochko, a biography of the artist, and an account of the villa; these are supplemented by reproductions of paintings and graphic works (from “Self-Portrait” in 1954 to canvases from the 1970s) and archival photographs, including Patyk near his first studio at 4 Shcherbakova Street (1957–1959). The exhibition curator and compiler of the booklet is Pavlo Hudymov. 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Lviv, 2004","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“And what will that child grow up to be?” my mother would fret.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Kryslach: Catalogue of Works \/ [autobiographical text by Ivan Kryslach]; editor Yevdokiya Rusyn; art editor Ihor Shuturma; technical editor Lesya Pelekhata.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: Kamyanar Publishing House, 2004. — 80 pp.: illus. — 29 × 21 cm. — Format 60 × 84\/8, coated paper, offset printing; signed for printing September 10, 2004, order 445-4. — Printed at VAT “Lviv Book Factory ‘Atlas’.” — Published at the author’s expense with the assistance of Vadym Nychka, Dmytro Sapiga, and Orest Lavruk. — ISBN 5-7745-1068-9.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a softcover edition: silver-grey reproduction of a linocut depicting riders in a steppe whirlwind against a black background, title in an ornamental font in the style of woven lace; on the back cover — a portrait of the artist and an English-language biography. Minor scuffs and rubbing on the cover surface, corners are not bumped. Coated paper is clean, the block is firm, no losses. There is a pencil price mark on the copyright page. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA lifetime edition, published at the artist’s own expense. The catalogue has artistic value and is of collector’s interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe catalogue opens with an autobiographical account by Kryslach himself — about the village of Stany Myr, his father, who was a member of the OUN, the eleven-kilometre walk to the gymnasium in Przemysl, and his studies under Olena Kulchytska; this is followed by a memoir by classmate Khrystyna Sanosetska and an assessment by art historian Mykola Batyha from the 1989 issue of Dzvon. The reproductive section includes a self-portrait (canvas, oil, 1981), watercolors for Stepan Rudanskyi’s “The Lion and Proleva” (Kamyanar, 1981), linocuts for Roman Fedoriv’s novel Zhorna (1982), cardboard engravings “Mother’s Autumn” and “My Native Village” (1975), color linocuts for “Little Red Riding Hood” (1990) and “Cinderella” (1989), and a 1990 cycle dedicated to Kruty — “For Ukraine,” “How You Were Buried…,” “Here Is Our Glory…”.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Kryslach (1929–2017) graduated from the Ivan Fedorov Ukrainian Polytechnic Institute in 1953; his art teachers were Olena Kulchytska, Vasyl Forostetskyi, and Valentyn Bunov. For decades he worked with Lviv’s Kamyanar, illustrating works by Shevchenko, Franko, Rudanskyi, Stefanyk, Ivanychuk, Fedoriv, and Lubkovskyi. A member of the Union of Artists since 1970, Honored Artist of Ukraine since 2007; between 1989 and 1998, he supervised the reconstruction of the church in his native village and designed the iconostasis and murals. Buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was published outside the state program — at the expense of the author and three private patrons named in the copyright information; no print run is specified. 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