«Higher Art Institution
in Kharkiv (1921–1962)»

Description

Monograph is the first detailed study of the processes of formation of higher art institution in Kharkiv, a feature of which the alternating transition from the training of fine art artists to the training of specialsts in the artistic and imdustrial direction. Both of these lines were first combined in the education system of the private art school of drawing by Mariya Rayevska-Ivanova in Kharkiv in the second half of the 19th century and today this model has found its continuation and feather development in the activities of the Kharkiv Academy of Design and Fine Arts. The author’s attention was focused in the period from 1921, when the first higher educational art institution in the city was created — the Kharkiv Art College, renamed over time into 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 the avant-garde inclinations of the KhSAI to the modernization of the Ukrainian fine art in the 1920s — early 1930s and the incredible losses among the teachers staff of the KhSAI in the then capital city of Ukraine during the rampant Stalnist repressions in 1933–1937, are revealed. This found its continuation in the second half of the 1940s before the outset of the “Khrushchov thaw”, that is, the period, with which this book ends. The monograph is intended for specialists and all those who are interested in the history of Ukrainian art.