Original 2017 first edition, published jointly by DOM Publishers, Berlin and Osnovy Publishing, Kyiv.
Out-of-print large-format photographic study documenting the monumental mosaics of Soviet Ukraine.
Photographer Yevgen Nikiforov spent three years travelling throughout Ukraine, covering approximately 35,000 km and visiting 109 cities and villages in order to document more than 1,000 surviving examples of Soviet monumental art. The resulting book contains around 200 photographs of mosaics dating principally from the 1950s–1980s.
The publication has become an important visual record of Ukrainian modernist and monumental art. A number of works documented by Nikiforov were subsequently altered or demolished, making the photographs valuable records of artworks and architectural environments that no longer survive in their photographed state.
Bibliographic details: Yevgen Nikiforov Decommunized: Ukrainian Soviet Mosaics DOM Publishers / Osnovy Publishing Berlin / Kyiv, 2017 First edition English language Hardcover with original illustrated dust jacket Approx. 256 pages Approx. 200 colour photographs 23.5 × 27.5 cm ISBN 978-3-86922-583-8
Condition: Very good condition. Complete with the original illustrated dust jacket, orange cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and original ribbon marker. Interior is clean and well preserved. Dust jacket shows only light signs of handling/storage and minor edge wear. Please refer to the photographs for the exact condition.
The original 2017 edition is now out of print.
A substantial and increasingly difficult-to-find reference on Ukrainian Soviet monumental art, architecture, mosaics and post-war modernism.