ANATOLIY KRYVOLAP and the Ukrainian Sublime [prepayment]

PREPAYMENT until September 15. Printing: until the beg. of October 2026

American art historian and curator of numerous museum exhibitions, Jennifer Cahn created the monograph Аnatoliy Kryvolap and the Ukrainian Sublime in 2014 for readers outside Ukraine. RODOVID published it in English at the time and distributed it in the USA and Europe.

In the anniversary year of Anatoly Kryvolap, we are publishing this book in Ukrainian.

Cahn examines the artist’s work, especially his landscapes, in the context of the historical development of landscape painting, the artist’s biography, his return from the capital to life in his native land, and the energy and ideas he draws from his native nature. The author writes that Kryvolap’s colors create a new sublime for his country. His energetic, powerful, and, at the same time, pastorally calm paintings become national symbols of the contrasts and contradictions of modern Ukraine in the 21st century.

“Kryvolap’s popularity lies in the tension he creates between nostalgia and contemporaneity. His paintings can be seen as a synopsis of Ukraine today, still firmly tied to agricultural traditions of land, the small home or khata, farm animals, and open spaces. His brilliant colors—pink earth, purple cows, orange sky—push the scene into this century, thus avoiding kitsch and energizing our atmosphere.”