The book “Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art” is now available in PDF format

The book Why There Are Great Women Artists in Ukrainian Art marks one of the first attempts to tell the history of Ukrainian art through the lens of gender, covering the period from the end of the 19th century to the artistic experiments of the early 21st century. This story is made up of unknown pages from biographies of Ukrainian female artists, where one can see the names of those who have been forgotten or remain little known to the general public along with those of the key figures of Ukrainian art.

The book shows how the possibilities of creative self-fulfillment by female and male artists changed over time, how the artists overcame the obstacles on the way to professional recognition, and how the awareness of bodily experience was transformed in their work. The archival documents dealing with the role and place of women in art, which we have collected, are particularly valuable.

This book is not recommended for minors.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition “A Space of One’s Own” and within the framework of the PinchukArtCentre Research Platform.

Author-compiler
Kateryna Iakovlenko

Texts by: Lidiia Apollonova, Kateryna Badianova, Lizaveta German, Halyna Hleba, Olena Hodenko, Tatiana Kochubinska, Kateryna Mishchenko, Vlada Ralko, Valeriia Schiller, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Tetiana Zhmurko

Translated from Ukrainian to English
Taras Shulha

English editor
Svitlana Biedarieva

Design and layout
Aliona Solomadina

Correction of color
Iana Staryk

Photo credits: Lidiia Apollonova, Maksym Bilousov, Oleksandr Burlaka, Volodymyr Bysov, Serhii Filimonov, Mykhailo Frantsuzov, Boris Gradov, Oleg Golosii, Anastasiia Kanarska, Dmytro Kavsan, I. Knypovych, Ihor Kryvinsky, Sasha Kurmaz, Yuri Leiderman, Oleksandr Lendiel, Oleksii Lerer, Volodymyr Melnychenko, Yevhen Nikiforov, Ihor Palmin, Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, Vasyl Pylypiuk, Viktor Ratushny, Larysa Rezun-Zvezdochetova, Dmytro Serhieiev, Valentyn Sierov, Kostiantyn Strilets, Anna Voitenko, Maksym Voloshyn and Yuliia Voloshyna, Uwe Walter, Veronika Yadukha, Andrii Yakubsky, Pavlo Yurak and unknown authors, as well as digitized archival materials provided by families and artists.

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