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Soviet Ukrainian painting c.1955-c.1979: New currents and undercurrents

Darewych, DI; (1992) Soviet Ukrainian painting c.1955-c.1979: New currents and undercurrents. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London). Green open access

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Since the early 1930s, Soviet artists had to work under strict controls imposed by the Communist Party. Yet, at the beginning of the 1960s a large scale flowering of Ukrainian culture took place in which Socialist Realism lost its tight grip on the visual arts, particularly painting. This thesis documents the revival of Soviet Ukrainian painting and traces its development in the context of the cultural and national past, using unpublished Soviet sources. The cultural and political background of 20th century Ukraine are described briefly as are the controls and censorship of the arts by the Communist Party working through the Ministry of Culture, the Academy of Arts, and the Artists' Union. The thesis discusses the effects of Socialist Realism on the artists, and then proceeds to examine the impact of Ehrushchev's policy of liberalization and Brezhnev's re-tightening of controls on the development of Ukrainian painting. It investigates the new currents and undercurrents of Soviet Ukrainian painting, particularly those beyond the narrow confines of Socialist Realism, covering approximately a period of twenty-five years. Some of the main trends of Ukrainian painting of the 1960s and 1970s are identified on the basis of an analysis of the work of a select number of innovative artists. Ukrainian and Western European influences are traced in the paintings of such official artists as R. Sel's'kyi, V. Patyk, and 0. Dubovyk, and in the work of such unofficial ones as P. Zalyvakha, K. Zviryns'kyi, I. Marchuk, F. Humeniuk, V. Makarenko, and V. Sazonov. The thesis evaluates, from a Western point of view, the contribution of non¬conformist art to the continuity of creative achievements of Ukrainian painting.

Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Qualification: Ph.D
Title: Soviet Ukrainian painting c.1955-c.1979: New currents and undercurrents
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10123363
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