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L'viv: Asotsiiatsii nezalezhnykh ukrains'kykh mysttsiv, 1932?1936. Quartos (34.5 ? 24.5 cm; 22.8 ? 14.7 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers with one illustration pasted to front wrapper; ca. 32 pp. per issue, with nos.1?4 with continuous pagination. Table of contents in Ukrainian and French. Illustrations throughout, some in monochrome. Light soil and fading to wrappers due to stock. No. 1 with a few pages detaching from block; nos. 5 and 6 chipped to spine extremities. Still about very good. A complete run (six issues in five fascicles) of this Ukrainian language art journal published by the Association of Independent Ukrainian Artists (AIUA), edited by one of the key figures of Ukrainian avant-garde Pavlo Kovzhun (1896?1939). Published in Ukrainian in L'viv, at the time part of Poland and independent of Soviet Ukraine until 1939, the objective of the journal and of AIUA at large, was to act as a bridge in Ukrainian arts. The journal?s program printed to inside of front wrapper declared: ?Mystetstvo contains articles on Ukrainian and foreign painting, graphics, sculpture, architecture, applied arts, art technology, restoration, museology, art theory, monographs on individual artists and art trends. Mystetstvo will offer wide coverage to artistic life in Ukrainian lands and in the west? A significant group of Ukrainian artists fled to Paris after the upheavals of the Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War of 1918?1922. Mystetstvo worked to build stable relations with the ?Paris Group? and with the Western European art world, by regularly reviewing Western exhibitions. The journal also established contact with ?Dnieper Ukraine?, by reviewing the work of the artists of Ukrainian SSR presented at the International Graphic Arts Exhibition in Warsaw in 1935. Mystetstvo continued the work of ?Ukrainske mystetstvo? (Ukrainian art; 1926), but was ?significantly more versatile and thematically balanced than any of its predecessors? Art historian Yuliia Pivtorak notes that ?It was the most successful attempt to establish an art magazine in Western Ukraine in the first third of the 20th century? (See: ?Ukrainian Art Periodicals in the 1920s? in Demchuk and Levchenko eds. Entangled Art Histories in Ukraine, 2025). Contributors to the journal included Otto Hahn, Yaroslava Muzyka, Mykhailo Osinchuk, Myroslava Chapelska, Volodymyr Lasovskyi, Mykhailo Draga, and Pavlo Kovzhun among others. The head editor of the journal, Pavlo Kovzhun, entered the Ukrainian art scene with a scandal in 1913 as part of the first Ukrainian Futurist group with the writer Mykhailo Semenko, and the painter Vasyl? Semenko. Their publishing enterprise ?Kvero? resulted in two Futurist books before the outbreak of WWI (See Ilnytzkyj, Ukrainian Futurism 1914?1930, p. 4.). After WWI and the Civil War, where he fought on the side of the Ukrainian People?s Republic, Kovzhun settled in L'viv, where he was involved in numerous artistic periodicals starting with ?Mytusa?, a modernist literary and artistic monthly published in 1922. In the late 1920s he collaborated with avant-garde periodicals such as Nova generatsiia (New generation), a Futurist magazine published by Mykhailo Semenko in Soviet Kharkiv. He also illustrated numerous publications and designed periodical and book covers in this period in a variety of styles, from Art Deco to Constructivism. As of February 2025, KVK, OCLC show copies at six institutions in North America, only two of these with complete runs.
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