By KYIV. Dec 20 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The New York Times experts included a book about Ukraine’s cultural heritage in the list of the Best Art Books of 2022.
"This urgent new title introduces us to more than 100 buildings and art objects, from prehistory to the Baroque era to the bomb-shelter present, in the nation we now finally see as the heart of Europe," according to the publication of The New York Times, dedicated to the results of the passing year.
"With chapters on Orthodox icons and Catholic cathedrals, Soviet avant-gardism and nationalist folk crafts, this book illustrates a culture whose very diversity now puts it in danger – and indeed some works pictured, such as stone statues near Kharkiv dating from the 9th to 13th century, have already been destroyed. The Ukraine war is a culture war, and these are the stakes," The New York Times said.
The book was published in October 2022 by Thames & Hudson (London). The publishing house directs all proceeds from book sales to the Ukrainian PEN Club, an international non-governmental organization that unites writers, poets and journalists.
A group of Ukrainian art critics and art historians worked on the creation of the book, in particular Oleksandr Solovyov, Diana Klochko, Alisa Lozhkina and others.
