Maidan - Portraits from the Black Square

Maidan - Portraits from the Black Square
Author: Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Maĭdan Nezalez︠h︡nosti (Kiev, Ukraine)
ISBN: 9780957427280

This title by Anastasia Taylor-Lind is a series of portraits of anti-government protestors and mourners made in a makeshift photographic studio in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), Kiev.

Black Square

Black Square
Author: Sophie Pinkham
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2016-08-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1473518334

'Lively and engaging' Financial Times 'Empathetic and deeply humanising' Peter Pomerantsev, author of This is Not Propaganda Each time Ukraine has rebuilt itself over the last century, it has been plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, and most of all Russian aggression. Sophie Pinkham saw all this and more over ten years in Ukraine and Russia, a period that included the Maidan revolution of 2013-14, Russia's annexation of Crimea, and the ensuing war in Donbass. With a keen eye for the dark absurdities of post-Soviet society, Pinkham presents a dynamic account of contemporary Ukrainian life. She meet a charismatic doctor helping to smooth the transition to democracy even as he struggles with drug dependence; a band of Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian hippies in a Crimean idyll; and a Jewish clarinetist agitating for Ukrainian liberation. These fascinating personalities deliver an indelible impression of a country on the brink. Black Square is necessary reading for anyone who wishes to learn the roots of the current Russo-Ukrainian war and the personal stories of the people who live it every day. ___ 'Elegant, suggestive, ominous, beautiful, and deceptively simple . . . Perhaps the only thing more impressive than the sheer number and diversity of people Sophie Pinkham has spoken to is how deftly she has woven their stories into a single compulsively readable narrative.' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot

The Ukrainian Night

The Ukrainian Night
Author: Marci Shore
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300231539

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices. In this lyrical and intimate book, Marci Shore evokes the human face of the Ukrainian Revolution. Grounded in the true stories of activists and soldiers, parents and children, Shore’s book blends a narrative of suspenseful choices with a historian’s reflections on what revolution is and what it means. She gently sets her portraits of individual revolutionaries against the past as they understand it—and the future as they hope to make it. In so doing, she provides a lesson about human solidarity in a world, our world, where the boundary between reality and fiction is ever more effaced.

Case History

Case History
Author: Boris Michailov
Publisher: Scalo Publishers
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1999
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9783908247098

Item chiefly consists of photographs of the homeless in the artist's hometown of Kharkov in the Ukraine.

Kaharlyk

Kaharlyk
Author: Oleh Shynkarenko
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780993197253

The novel is set in Ukraine after a war with Russia. A man has lost his memory because the Russian military have used his brain to control military satellites. He regains conciousness in a mysterious hospital-like building and begins a journey to Kaharlyk, a town where time has stood still following the testing of an experimental weapon.

Bitter Honeydew

Bitter Honeydew
Author: Kirill Golovchenko
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Documentary photography
ISBN: 9781907893681

Winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography, Bitter Honeydew depicts the lives of those who run roadside stalls in Ukraine - 'tochka' - where they sell fruit according to the season. Golovchenko's images speak of his compassion for these uprooted men and women, about the bitterness in their lives. His photographs have been exhibited internationally since 2004, and he has received several prestigious scholarships. Christian Caujolle, one of France's leading curators and critics, provides an illuminating introductory essay to the work.

FLASHPOINT! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present

FLASHPOINT! Protest Photography in Print, 1950-Present
Author: Russet Lederman
Publisher: 10x10 Photobooks
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

Flashpoint!, an anthology focusing on protest photography in print, presents a global selection of photobooks, zines, posters, pamphlets, independent journals and alternative newspapers that address protest and resistance from 1950 to the present. Surveying more than 246 photography in print assets, Flashpoint! is structured thematically into seven broad chapters: Anti, Gender, Displacement, Race & Class, Environment, Political and War & Violence. Each chapter includes multiple sub-themes that address resistance related to anti-government, anti-globalization, women’s rights, AIDS, anti-apartheid, civil rights, anti-imperialism, workers’ rights, territorial disputes, student protests, national populism, anti-colonialism, revolution and gun violence, among others. Included are illustrations and detailed descriptions of photography books, fliers, journals, alternative newspapers, posters and zines from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, France, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, New Zealand, Spain, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, and more. Contributing Essayists: Makeda Best, Hannah Darabi, Arthur Fournier, Marc Feustel, Kerry Manders, Elisa Medde, Mark Sealy and Pauline Vermare.

In the Sphere of The Soviets

In the Sphere of The Soviets
Author: Charles Merewether
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2021-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9813365749

The book distinctive is listed in points (i) it focuses on Eastern European art covering the historical avant-garde to the post-war and contemporary periods of; (ii) it looks at some key artists in the countries that have not been given so much attention within this content i.e. Georgia, Dagestan, Chechnya and Central Asia; (iii) it looks beyond Eastern Europe to the influence of Russia/Soviet Union in Asia. It explores the theoretical models developed for understanding contemporary art across Eastern Europe and focus on the new generation of Georgian artists who emerged in the immediate years before and after the country’s independence from the Soviet Union; and on to discuss the legacy and debates around monuments across Poland, Russia and Ukraine.helps in Better understanding the postwar and contemporary art in Eastern Europe.

Neonazis & Euromaidan

Neonazis & Euromaidan
Author: Stanislav Byshok
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2014-07-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781500555481

The book describes the development of Ukraine's nationalist groups since 1991 until present day. It focuses on the history of the parliamentary right-wing radical Svoboda party and the nonparliamentary Right Sector movement. The authors study the ideology, psychology and methods of political struggle of these structures. The experts seek to answer the question: how did the radical neo-Nazi groups manage to become the key driving force behind the Ukrainian revolution?

The Wrestler's Body

The Wrestler's Body
Author: Joseph S. Alter
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1992-08-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780520912175

The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology. Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a wrestler and build collective strength through self-discipline.