Permanent revolution. Ukrainian art of the 20th and early 21st centuries

The book by the leading Ukrainian curator and art critic Alisa Lozhkina is an attempt to link the history of the development of domestic visual practices from the birth of modernism to the present day into a coherent narrative. Special emphasis on the phenomena of the times of independence. How has the language of art changed over the past century and a half? What role in this process did turbulence play in a country that experienced a series of transformations — from the status of a provincial suburb of the Russian Empire through the difficult stage of building socialism, up to independence, the Orange Revolution, the Revolution of Dignity and the next difficult period of our recent history? The study provides a brief overview of the central events and phenomena in Ukrainian art, as well as various illustrative material covering dozens of museum collections, private collections, archives of artists and their families.