Book Kharkiv Higher Art School: From Modernism to Transformation (1921–1962)

For whom?

The publication is intended for specialists and all those interested in the history of Ukrainian art, the history of Ukraine in general, and the Slobozhanshchyna in particular.

Why is it worth buying?

This is the first thorough study of the emergence of a higher art school in Kharkiv.

The monograph is the first thorough scientific study of the processes of formation of a higher art educational institution in Kharkiv, the peculiarity of which was the alternating transition from training fine art artists to studying specialists in the art and industrial direction. Both of these lines were first combined in the teaching system at the private drawing school of Maria Raevskaya-Ivanova in Kharkiv in the second half of the 19th century, and today this model has found its continuation and further development in the activities of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. The author's attention is focused on the period from 1921, when the first art higher education institution in the city was established - the Kharkiv Art College, later renamed the Kharkiv State Art Institute, and until 1962, that is, the beginning of the reform of this institution into the Kharkiv Art and Industrial Institute. The significance of the contribution of artists-teachers of avant-garde preferences at the KhKhI to the modernization of Ukrainian fine art in the 1920s - early 1930s is revealed, as well as the incredible losses among the teaching staff of the then art university in the capital city of Ukraine during the rampant Stalinist repressions in 1933-1937, which continued in the second half of the 1940s until the onset of the “Khrushchev Thaw,” that is, the period with which this book ends.

The publication is intended for specialists and all those interested in the history of Ukrainian art.

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