A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage drawing on over 100 of the country's most
important works of art and architectural monuments from prehistory to the present. Treasures
of Ukraine chronicles the arts and heritage of Ukraine at a time when the country's people
culture landmarks and artworks are facing destruction and devastation. Created in partnership
with a group of renowned artists curators and critics this record of architectural monuments
and artworks reaches from pre-history to the present day. It charts the development of ancient
cultures from Trypillia and Scythia to early states such as Kyivan Rus and the Cossack
Hetmanate to the most important contemporary paintings and political art being produced today.
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century artistic movements - from the dawn of Modernism to
non-conformist art produced under Soviet rule - shine light on key periods of Ukraine's
history. Organized chronologically across eight chapters Treasures of Ukraine contains more
than 220 colour images that showcase everything from Scythian gold Byzantine icons and wooden
churches to gold-domed cathedrals avant-garde masterpieces and political art after the Orange
Revolution while accompanying texts reveal the history and significance behind the pieces.
Examples of vernacular art meanwhile weave Ukraine's dynamic and inextinguishable folk
narrative through the book providing visual texture as well as a sense of the nation's living
history.
