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«ХУДПРОМ: Український журнал з мистецтва і дизайну», 2023

"HUDPROM: The Ukrainian Art and Design Journal" is academical publication devoted to the actual p... more "HUDPROM: The Ukrainian Art and Design Journal" is academical publication devoted to the actual problems of art history. The journal publishes scholarly research on history, theory, and interdisciplinary discourse in plastic arts and contemporary design, reviews of monographs, exhibition catalogues and teaching aids. The periodical invites academic scholars and addresses the researchers of fine arts, visual culture and design. The journal is published 2 times per year (June, December). The journal was founded in 2023. Until now, the periodical was published under the name "BULLETIN of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts", was founded in 1999.
ISSN 2786-7285 (online)

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ХУДПРОМ: Український журнал з мистецтва і дизайну, 2023

"ХУДПРОМ: Український журнал з мистецтва і дизайну" (ISSN 2786-7285 - online) - наукове видання, ... more "ХУДПРОМ: Український журнал з мистецтва і дизайну" (ISSN 2786-7285 - online) - наукове видання, присвячене нагальним проблемам мистецтвознавства. У журналі публікуються матеріали наукових досліджень з історії, теорії та міждисциплінарного дискурсу в галузі образотворчого мистецтва й дизайну, наукові рецензії на монографії, на каталоги художніх проєктів та навчальні посібники. Журнал запрошує академічних науковців, пошукачів учених ступенів і звань та звертається до дослідників з образотворчого мистецтва, візуальної культури й дизайну. Періодичність: 2 номери на рік (червень, грудень).

"HUDPROM: The Ukrainian Art and Design Journal" (ISSN 2786-7285 - online) is academical publication devoted to the actual problems of art history. The journal publishes scholarly research on history, theory, and interdisciplinary discourse in plastic arts and contemporary design, reviews of monographs, exhibition catalogues and teaching aids. The periodical invites academic scholars and addresses the researchers of fine arts, visual culture and design. Journal is published: 2 times per year (June, December).

Kotlyar Eugeny, Teter Magda. THE LIGHT OF THE REVIVAL. Stained Glass Design for Restituted Synago... more Kotlyar Eugeny, Teter Magda. THE LIGHT OF THE REVIVAL. Stained Glass Design for Restituted Synagogues of Ukraine by Eugeny Kotlyar. Catalog of the Exhibition at the Walsh Family Library at Fordham University, September 10 — December 10, 2023, New York: The Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham University, 2024, 56 p.

The catalogue of the exhibition “THE LIGHT OF THE REVIVAL: Stained Glass Design for Restituted Synagogues of Ukraine” offers a broad perspective on the revival of Ukrainian synagogues after Ukraine’s independence, showcasing three sets of stained-glass windows, which were designed by Eugeny Kotlyar and partially implemented in Ukrainian synagogues in the period from 1995 to 2005. Two early works shown here were the first samples of stained-glass designs for modern Ukrainian synagogues, which set a new trend. The first of them — the stained-glass windows for the Kharkiv Choral synagogue (1995) on the theme of Jewish Holidays. The second project — an ensemble of stained-glass windows for the Kyiv synagogue in Podil (2002) — focuses Holy Places of the Land of Israel and the Tribes of Israel. And, the third work Jerusalem and the Tribes of Israel is a part of the original design of the Torah Ark itself in the Galitska synagogue in Kyiv (2005). In Kotlyar’s artistic vision, the stained-glass window projects the light, turns the metaphysical into the physical, materializes the speculative image, and, ultimately, fills the prayer with color and light.

Eugeny Kotlyar is a professor at the Department of Art History and the chair of the Department of Monumental Paintings at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (KSADA). He is also a curator of the Center for Eastern Studies of KSADA and the chair of the Academic Board of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies (UAJS). His research focuses on Jewish art, Jewish heritage in Ukraine, synagogue decorations, and Kharkiv Jewish local lore.
Trained as an artist and art historian, Kotlyar designed stained-glass windows for synagogues and Jewish community centers in many cities of Ukraine. In 2022–2023, he was a virtual fellow in the AAJR-Fordham-NYPL Ukrainian Fellowship Program.

The catalog presents the works of the exhibition project ’HAPPINESS SQUARED‘; an artistic event a... more The catalog presents the works of the exhibition project ’HAPPINESS SQUARED‘; an artistic event aimed at supporting young artists. The project was launched in the spring of 2020 during the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which practically paralyzed life in our society. The project was envisaged as a kind of art therapy for creative youth who were cut off from the usual ways of communication and left alone. Artists were asked to concentrate on the positive and visualize their feelings of happiness on a canvas 1 square meter in size (hence the name of the project). Thirty-four artists, comprising both students from various years and graduates of KSADA’s Department of Monumental Painting responded to this call, creating between one and three paintings each. As a result, 39 works of art are presented, grouped into four blocks in the finished project. They visualize certain modes of contemplation and visualization of images of happiness, and also reflect the ontological nature of this phenomenon in various phases of its development: waiting (“Inspiration”), contemplation (“Weightlessness”), acquiring (“Acquisition”), and transformation (“Transgression”). This project combined individual visions of happiness into a collective phenomenon and grew into an artistic study of its psychological, emotional, and social nature. Thus, the exhibition revealed a mechanism for emerging from a crisis and a difficult situation which has the power to prompt the viewer to search for their own path to happiness and its individual formula.

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The present thematic issue of the Bulletin is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of KSADA (1921–2... more The present thematic issue of the Bulletin is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of KSADA (1921–2021). It includes materials of scientific research on the history of the development and formation of higher art and design education in Kharkiv for the entire period of the existence of this higher educational institution, the formation of creative and scientific schools, the revision of individual artists, designers and art critics. The academic part is supplemented with unique archival materials, memoirs of old school artists and memoirs of contemporaries about past events and outstanding figures of the Kharkiv Art School, that carry the voices of the past to us. A separate section examines the signifi cance of the historical building of KSADA as a monument of architecture and a symbol of Ukrainian style, a place of creative power, a source of inspiration for artists of all generations and an image, which became a part of the identity of the university. A separate visual section with albums of the university’s photo chronicles for a century and reproductions of works of art with images of the Khudprom unfolds a panorama of the life and work of our art community. Traditionally, we add a section with scientific reviews of monographs and catalogs of art projects. The Bulletin invites academic scholars, applicants for degrees and titles, and appeals to researchers, teachers and students in visual arts, visual culture and design.
Нинішній тематичний номер ВІСНИКу присвячений 100-річчю ХДАДМ (1921–2021). Він включає матеріали наукових досліджень з історії розвитку та становлення вищої мистецько-дизайнерської освіти у Харкові за весь період існування вишу, з формування творчих і наукових шкіл, доробку окремих мистців, дизайнерів і мистецтвознавців. До академічної частини додаються унікальні архівні матеріали, мемуари мистців старої школи та спогади сучасників про минулі події та видатних постатей харківської художньої школи, що доносять до нас голоси минулого. В окремому розділі розглядається значення історичного корпусу ХДАДМ як пам’ятки архітектури та символу українського стилю, місця творчої сили, джерела натхнення для митців усіх поколінь та образу, який увійшов до айдентики вишу. Окрема візуальна частина з альбомами фотолітопису вишу за століття та репродукціями мистецьких творів з образами Худпрому розгортає панораму життя та творчості нашого мистецького середовища. Традиційно додаємо розділ з науковими рецензіями на монографії та каталоги художніх проєктів. ВІСНИК запрошує академічних науковців, пошукачів учених ступенів і звань та звертається до дослідників, викладачів і студентів з образотворчого мистецтва, візуальної культури й дизайну.

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The Bulletin publishes scholarly research on history, theory, and interdisciplinary discourse in ... more The Bulletin publishes scholarly research on history, theory, and interdisciplinary discourse in plastic arts and contemporary design, reviews of monographs, exhibition catalogues and teaching aids. The periodical invites aсademic scholars and addresses the researchers, educators, and students of fi ne arts, visual culture and design.
У збірнику публікуються матеріали наукових досліджень з історії, теорії та міждисциплінарного дискурсу в галузі образотворчого мистецтва й дизайну, наукові рецензії на монографії, на каталоги художніх проєктів та навчальні посібники. Вісник запрошує академічних науковців, пошукачів учених ступенів і звань та звертається до дослідників, викладачів і студентів з образотворчого мистецтва, візуальної культури й дизайну.

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У збірнику публікуються матеріали наукових досліджень з історії, теорії та міждисциплінарного дискурсу в галузі образотворчого мистецтва й дизайну, наукові рецензії на монографії, на каталоги художніх проєктів та навчальні посібники. Вісник запрошує академічних науковців, пошукачів учених ступенів і звань та звертається до дослідників, викладачів і студентів з образотворчого мистецтва, візуальної культури й дизайну.

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The project showcases a gallery of self-portraits of contemporary young artists who were trained ... more The project showcases a gallery of self-portraits of contemporary young artists who were trained at different times at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts at tne Department of "Monumental Painting". The presented works reflect the diverse artistic experience and personal view of the authors through the prism of their "I" on the eternal theme of human, including female, destiny, with its passions and desires, purpose and inevitability, sublime beauty and earthly temptations. Contemporary art is illuminated through the prism of a retrospective panorama of the theme "Adam and Eve" in its various plot echoes. This allows us to show how the aesthetic ideas of mankind about their nature have developed over time, helps the viewer to make a modern portrait of our generation in its best, female half.
Проект демонструє галерею автопортретів сучасних молодих мисткинь, які в різні часи пройшли вишкіл у Харківській державній академії дизайну і мистецтв за фахом «Монументальний живопис». Представлені твори віддзеркалюють різноманітний мистецький досвід та особистісний погляд авторками крізь призму свого «Я» на одвічну тему людської, зокрема жіночої, долі, з її пристрастями і бажаннями, призначенням і неминучістю, піднесеною красою і земними спокусами. Сучасне мистецтво висвітлюється крізь призму ретроспективної панорами теми «Адам і Єва» у її різних сюжетних відгомонах. Це дозволяє показати, як розвивалися в часі естетичні уявлення людства про свою природу, допомагає глядачеві скласти сучасний портрет нашого покоління в його кращій, жіночій половині.

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Working with the naked nature is an integral part of art education, which hone skills, shape tast... more Working with the naked nature is an integral part of art education, which hone skills, shape tastes and creative tastes, revive academic study. During for centuries, female nature has been the embodiment of the changing ideal of beauty, the appeal to which gave rise to the world's favorite genre of art. It was in this genre of "nude" that the change of aesthetic canons of femininity in its grace and sacrifice, restraint and chastity, sensuality and emotionality, eroticism, self-sufficiency, even brutality, etc. was observed. In works of monumental art, women's nudity from ancient times embodied the archetypes of beauty and strength, motherhood and fertility, fragility, intimacy and passion. For students of the monumental class, full-scale productions have always combined classical training with creative experimentation and the search for new artistic language, picturesque expressiveness, decorativeness and stylistics. They awakened creative energy, stimulated the disclosure of individuality. The modern generation of young monumentalists of the KSADA presents these searches in a wide range of plastic solutions.
Робота з оголеною натурою є невід’ємною складовою художньої освіти, яка відточує майстерність, формує смаки та творчі вподобання, пожвавлює академічне студіювання. Впродовж століть жіноча натура була втіленням мінливого ідеалу краси, звернення до якого породило найулюбленіший жанр світового мистецтва. Саме в цьому жанрі «ню» унаочнювалась зміна естетичних канонів жіночності в її граціозності та жертовності, стриманості та цнотливості, чуттєвості та емоційності, еротичності, самодостатності, навіть брутальності тощо. У творах монументального мистецтва жіноча нагота з давнини уособлювала архетипи краси і сили, материнства і родючості, крихкості, інтимності та пристрасті. Для студентів монументального класу натурні постановки завжди поєднували класичний вишкіл з творчим експериментом та пошуком нової художньої мови, живописної виразності, декоративності та стилістичності. Вони пробуджували творчу енергію, стимулювали до розкриття індивідуальності. Сучасна генерація молодих монументалістів ХДАДМ представляє ці пошуки в широкому діапазоні пластичних рішень.

The catalogue presents the materials of a photographic exhibition dedicated to the wall paintings... more The catalogue presents the materials of a photographic exhibition dedicated to the wall paintings of eight synagogues located in the Northern (Ukrainian) and Southern (Romanian) Bukovinian region. The catalogue features analytical articles, historical reviews and recent photographs with descriptions and explanations, as well as graphic reconstructions. They shape a holistic view of the eastern European tradition of synagogue wall painting and its regional peculiarities. An in-depth analysis of the iconography, semantics and artistic approaches to traditional motifs enables the reader to realize the profound spiritual content and social value of the cultural heritage of Eastern European Jewry largely lost during Holocaust and as a result of policies of the post-war authoritarian regimes.

This Guide-book includes three thematical routes: “The Old Addresses of Jewish Kharkov”, “Memoria... more This Guide-book includes three thematical routes: “The Old Addresses of Jewish Kharkov”, “Memorial Places of Kharkov Holocaust” and “Karaites on Kharkov Map”; materials on history and culture of the old Jewish and Karaite communities and the present day national life; information about outstanding people among Kharkov’s Jews and Karaites.

The publication presents educational and artistic project "Neshama: Through Art to the Heart". It... more The publication presents educational and artistic project "Neshama: Through Art to the Heart". It includes a trip overview, art works resulted from the expedition to the former Jewish shtetls of Ukraine taken by Kharkov's young artists in August 2011, artists' impressions from encountering Jewish art and culture, their ideas on how to incorporate this legacy in their creative work, and the exhibition catalog. Artistic works created for the exhibition "Jewish Atlantis" show us how the world of shtetl appears to our contemporaries and what it means to our generation.

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The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. ... more The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. E. Kotlyar. – Kharkiv: The Center for Eastern Studies of KSADA, 2011. – # 9 (Vol. 4: Jewish Art and the Ukrainian Context: Within the Stream of European Modernity). – 456 p.
Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв. Сходознавчі студії / Упор. Є. Котляр. – Харків: Центр сходознавства ХДАДМ, 2011. – № 9 (Вип. 4: Єврейське мистецтво і український контекст. У руслі європейських новацій). – 456 с.
The Center for Eastern Studies at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (KSADA) is pleased to introduce the Fourth Volume of Eastern Studies, a special issue of the Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. This is the second part of the research and academic publishing project titled “Jewish Art and the Ukrainian Context,” which has brought together researchers of Jewish Art from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Israel, the US, and Canada.
The present volume is devoted to the “alternative route” taken by Jewish art. This is the road which, by contrast with art cultural traditions developed at earlier times, beckoned and led in unsuspected directions, occasionally culminating in a cul-de-sac or else in world-historical achievements in the search for one’s own “national” creative path. A sustained academic interest taken in the genesis of “secular” Jewish art has continually been directing researchers’ attention to Ukraine. The Ukrainian lands not only provided a fruitful soil for the flowering of the traditional forms of art; they also proved to be the most fitting environment in which a different set of shoots sprouted, thus by right making Ukraine one of the chief alma maters of Jewish modernism. This and other, related questions make up the principal foci of the studies collected in the present volume.
The secularization of Jewish art and the emergence of the Jewish theme within the framework of European cultural space; the images of the Jewish world in the work of the non-Jewish masters; and national themes in the works of Jewish artists, as well as “universal” subjects which formed the concern of Jewish artists working outside the Jewish national context, became an autonomous area of Jewish artistic endeavor, which embarked on a course of rapid growth and development beginning in the mid-1800s. Despite the fact that this art was still focused on the traditions and visual notions familiar from within the Jewish world, whence this art derived its plastic imagery, motifs, types, typologies, and symbols, it was already deeply involved in solving new problems of its own. These problems were no longer bound up with the daily round of life within the traditional fold, but were rather in the process of generating an overall source of creative motivation, a civil position, and a means of self-identification for Jewish artists. The formal means at the disposal of art and the accumulated national imagery were conceived of as an instrument for the free expression of the Jewish artists’ sense of the universe and of their anxieties and hopes. They lived and breathed their art, bearing their national and universal notions into the European world beyond the confines of their familiar surroundings.
Access to an academic art education along with the modernization of Jewish life as a whole permitted Jewish artists to develop a broader view of their past and their future. These changes enabled the Jewish artists to foster a vision of their national history, finding a way to reflect this vision in their works in accord with the cultural paradigms of their times, and fitting it within the framework of the dominant art styles. Radical socio-political changes in European life of the first decades of the 20th century, the tragedy of Jews in Ukrainian lands, as well as contemporary revolutionary metamorphoses – all had a drastic impact on the nature of Jewish art. From a tradition depicting the daily round of the “inmates of the ghetto,” this art broke out into the revolutionary open of the avant-garde and the conceptual space of creating the “new Jew.” A certain conceptual paradigm had been formed; borrowing from the phraseology abundant in the writings of Ryback and Aronson, the ideological leaders of the Kultur-Lige Jewish association in Kiev, we should say that the Jews were no longer willing to mimic or “take” from world art. They now wanted to make a contribution of their own, to add their own fresh and pristine spurt of national feeling to the streaming life of the arts. The language of plastic expression transcended the limits of thematic frameworks, becoming the subject of an independent and self-sufficient means of expression for different creative ideas, including ones of a national bent.
The displacement of the nationalistic conception of art by class ideology, followed by the Holocaust in Europe, and, later, by the rule of the anti-Semitic Soviet regime, for all intents and purposes, wiped out the Jewish thematic from the life of art. Ukrainian independence and democratization of society restored this sphere as a part of national culture, directing to it the attention of Ukrainian artists, some of whom stayed, continuing to work in Ukraine, while others dispersed over the face of the globe.
The present issue for the first time introduces “Annales,” a new rubric for the reporting and discussion of academic and artistic news. The new heading will lead into coverage of the academic and research forums of the last few years in Ukraine and abroad, which were devoted to Jewish art, the preservation and representation of the Jewish heritage, creative expeditions and research field trips, exhibits, and other international symposia, where Art Judaica materials have been making their appearance.
In keeping with the traditions of earlier issues, the present volume includes book reviews and surveys responding to the publication of materials related to Jewish Studies at home and abroad. The volume also includes announcements of leading art historical periodicals concerned with Jewish art, as well as specific publications in periodicals, which shed light upon developments in this field.
The editors and compilers of the present volume wish to express their gratitude to colleagues from the Center for Eastern Studies, and to Ukrainian, Russian, and overseas researchers for their work and collaboration in preparing this publication. A special thanks is due to Elen Rochlin (Jerusalem) and to Vita Susak (Lviv) for their translations of articles and other materials which went into the making of this volume. We also wish to thank Oleg Koval, Konstantin Bondar (Kharkiv), and Gregory Kotlyar (New York) for their academic and organizational assistance in making the publication of the present volume possible.
The significance of the present publication goes far beyond yet another confirmation of the very fact of the existence of Jewish art. It also testifies to the profound integration of Jewish art into the creative, socio-cultural, and generally civilizational processes unfolding as a part of the life of contemporary society. The absence of state territory associated with the Jews in the past made the art of the Jewish People unlimited in many ways. Together with Jewish art, Ukraine itself, which was the locus of the origination of this art and the place from which this art retransferred and where it again returned to draw upon subject matter and imagery, became a point of significance in the archives of world cultural memory.
In the words of Pavel Zholtovsky, an outstanding Ukrainian art historian and researcher of Jewish art, the artistic strata of this memory constitute a peculiar kind of “umbra vitae” – a shadow of the life of its creators. But, coming to light in the general academic and social turnover of today, this memory becomes the carmen vitae, the song of the life of Jewish art, in which not only Jewish, but also Ukrainian and general European tones make themselves felt. The dialogic exchange of cultures is not simply oriented to face toward the past; it also postulates future models of “one’s own” and “the alien,” of the national and the universal, which are yet destined to find and establish themselves in an era of the erasing of boundaries and of world globalization.

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The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. ... more The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. E. Kotlyar. – Kharkiv: The Center for Eastern Studies of KSADA, 2010. – # 8 (Vol. 3: Jewish Art and the Ukrainian Context: Horizons of Traditional Artistic Culture). – 360 p.
Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв. Сходознавчі студії / Упор. Є. Котляр. – Харків: Центр сходознавства ХДАДМ, 2010. – № 8 (Вип. 3: Єврейське мистецтво і український контекст. Обрії традиційної художньої культури). – 360 с.
The Center for Eastern Studies at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (KSADA) presents the Third Volume of Eastern Studies, a special issue of the Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. This is the first time that an entire issue of a Ukrainian academic journal is devoted to Jewish art. The present volume deals with topics of traditional art and culture; the Fourth Volume will present current research findings in Art Judaica and work of Jewish artists beyond the scope of tradition. The two volumes’ special focus, “Jewish Art and the Ukrainian Context,” has attracted numerous submissions by scholars from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Israel, the U.S., and Canada. The essays included in our collection are evidence of considerable international interest in Jewish art and cultural heritage that are in some way directly or indirectly bound up with Ukraine.
In setting ourselves the goal of bringing together in the Ukrainian academic field both native and overseas researchers of Art Judaica, we hardly expected to see such a thematically diverse spectrum of material submitted for publication. To introduce it to the general academic reader, we want to note that Jewish art on Ukrainian soil has been marked by extraordinary achievements, masterworks, and names which have become a part of not only Jewish, but also world art culture. Traces of antiquity and the Middle Ages, influences of the Rec’ Pospolita and of three world empires – Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman – as well as of other countries and states, made Jewish culture in this region inimitably variegated. This culture took on a shape all its own, manifesting itself in a variety of temporal and cultural milieus. The universe of the Eastern European Jewish shtetl produced a cultural environment that brought to life astounding works of Ashkenazi Jewish art, including wooden and stone “defense”-style synagogue architecture and ritual objects made of stone, clay, metal, wood, and textiles, which served in the Jews’ daily round and ritual. The architectural and object surroundings of the former Jewish shtetls along with the graves of the Chasidic masters (the Zaddiks), sites of mass pilgrimage by Chasidim from all over the world, by their power of mass attraction today constitute a historical landscape in their own right.
The traditional artistic universe of the Pale of Jewish Settlement, discovered by Shimon An-sky, became, in the art historian Abram Efros’ phrase, an “Aladdin’s lamp,” a source of living inspiration for the Jewish avant-garde tearing beyond the limits of the ghetto and leading forth into the world open artists such as Chagall, Lissitzky, Ryback, and dozens of others who set the fashion and the shape of world modernism. In addition, the artistic heritage of the Crimean Jews and Karaites reflected the coalescence of cultural Jewish elements with the Turkic-Tatar world. These phenomena are making a comeback today, after having sustained varying levels of loss due to the wars and totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Contemporary Art Judaica in many ways is a turn to addressing this world, simultaneously combining evolved national forms and novel ideas with the universal objectives of art.
World academic forums and periodicals devoted to Judaica and Jewish art have long been working to introduce Eastern European Jewish Studies, as well as Jewish Ukrainian cultural discourse, into the scholarly context of today.
In bringing this discipline into the foreground, we are, in effect, conveying to the reader the collective art historical research of the very phenomenon of Ukraino-Judaica, as it was capaciously labeled by the well known ukrainist Marten Feller. This phenomenon has in many ways determined the cultural diversity of Ukraine, especially Ukraine’s Western regions, lending them a peculiar image of their own; it also conditioned the mutual integration of the Ukrainian context with the European and world cultural and hermeneutic space.
This volume includes articles on Jewish ritual objects and traditional art, historical-artistic heritage and collections of decorative and applied craft works.
We are grateful to colleagues at the Center for Eastern Studies, and to Ukrainian, Russian, and overseas researchers for their participation in preparing this volume. Special thanks to Elen Rochlin (Jerusalem) and Bogdana Pinchevskaya (Kyiv) for their translations of materials included in the present volume, as well as to Oleg Koval and Konstantin Bondar (Kharkіv) and Gregory Kotlyar (New York) for their academic and logistical support for the appearance of the present collection in print.
We hope that the publication of this collection will not only prove of interest for specialists and the public concerned with landmarks of traditional Jewish culture in Ukraine, but that it will also attract the attention of those responsible for the preservation of Ukraine’s multinational heritage. This is a priceless resource for future generations and the development of modern tourist and pilgrimage infrastructures, where the Jewish urban historical heritage, and, especially, the heritage of the shtetls, occupies a niche all its own.

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The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. ... more The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. E. Kotlyar. – Kharkiv: The Center for Eastern Studies of KSADA, 2009. – # 12 (Vol. 2). – 260 p.
Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв. Сходознавчі студії / Упор. Є. Котляр. – Харків: Центр сходознавства ХДАДМ, 2009. – № 12 (Вип. 2). – 260 с.
The Center for Eastern Studies at KSADA is pleased to present the second volume of the Journal of Eastern Studies, a special issue of the Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, which is devoted to artistic and cultural issues in Eastern Studies.
As compared with our first experiment, the second issue is testimony to significant growth in the geographic spread and thematic variety of the articles on the art of the East and the East-West artistic dialogue. The present issue features articles and reviews by authors from seven countries: Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Georgia, Poland, Japan, and China. In addition, Ukraine is represented by a number of cities: Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lviv, and Simferopol.
The issue opens with a series of essays demonstrating the span of the temporal and geographic horizon of Eastern Studies. Thus, Aleksei Chekal turns to the art of Edessa of the 1st-3rd century, and the connection of a funerary mosaic with the art traditions of Palmyra and Osrhoene. The Chinese researcher Tian Rui analyzes city sculpture in China at the turn of the 21st century, in which national tradition and post-modern tendencies of Contemporary Art have met and become intertwined.
The study of Islamic art is represented by the work of Nuria Akchurina-Muftieva on the topic of the water sources and architectural design of the famous Crimean fountains, whose special features the author examines through the prism of Islamic artistic traditions. This is our first essay in Islamic Studies, and we look forward to expanding in this area. In addition, it is specifically issues in Islamic Studies that formed the principal concern of the school of Gordeev – Zummer, whose traditions we aim to restore. We hope that among our future contributors there will be researchers of the art and material culture of the Eastern peoples of the Crimea.
Issues in Japanese culture and art are traditional subject matter for the Center for Eastern Studies and for our publication. They are represented by the scholarly sketch by Svetlana Rybalko, devoted to the traditions of Japanese dress and its intertextual ties with different types of ukiyo-e; the article by Yulia Tormysheva about the most recent trends in Japanese netsuke art of the 20th-21st centuries; and the study by Chieko Owaki on Ukrainian-Japanese cultural dialogue as realized through David Burlyuk’s exhibitions in Japan. The article on the role of women in modern Japanese art, our publication’s first essay in English, was submitted by the Polish scholar Magdalena Furmanik-Kowalska.
The material surroundings, specific features, and reflection of the tea ceremony in art form the object of consideration for another Chinese scholar, Tsu Fenley. The international complex of articles deals with the traditions and artistic innovations in Judaica. The paper by Oleg Koval considers the issue of ties between verbal and iconic cultural codes in Jewish art. The 1924 «Self-Portrait» by El Lissitzky is discussed from the perspective of a verbal-visual synthesis, introducing a series of artistic and cultural issues in its wake.
We are for the first time presenting the unpublished materials of the art historian and scholar Dr. Faina Petryakova, which the Center for Judaica and Jewish Art in Lviv has generously made available to us in her memory. Two articles are devoted to the history of Jewish museums and their collections. Eugeny Kotlyar traces and analyzes the fate of Jewish collections dating from the periods of the Russian Empire and the USSR, brought together primarily on the territory of today’s Russia and Ukraine. The study by Lela Tzitzuashvili deals with the Jewish Historico-Ethnographic Museum in Georgia, as well as with the grassroots amateur artist Shalom Koboshvili, the «Jewish Pirosmani» who depicted the daily life and customs of Georgian Jews. Olga Shkolnaya’s essay provides a general view of Jewish porcelain production in Ukrainian lands, and the contribution of Jews to the development of this area of industrial endeavor. Bogdana Pinchevskaya’s research involves comparing Polish and Ukrainian historiography of the study of the Lviv artistic union «Artes», which numbered many Jews among its members. The as yet unfamiliar to us in art name of Mark Strauss, a former Lvovian who survived the Holocaust and became an accomplished artist in the US, is brought back to his country by the art historian Dr. Orest Golubets.
In the present issue we introduce a number of changes. A new section has been added, where we plan to publish little known documents, letters, archival materials, memoirs, and travel notes which have a connection to Eastern Studies. The first materials to be included in this section are memoirs by the art historian Dr. Mikhail Selivachev on the Jewish theme in his life and work, as well as Vita Susak’s interview with the American artist Roy Gussow, a student of Alexander Arkhipenko. These materials have all been prepared specially for the second issue of the Bulletin.
In keeping with the tradition initiated by the first issue, this volume concludes with a series of the book reviews and exhibition catalogues.
We are grateful to our colleagues from the Center for Eastern Studies and to Ukrainian and overseas researchers for their cooperation in preparing the present issue. We invite specialists from Ukraine and foreign countries to take part in our future publications by submitting their articles, book reviews, archival or little known documents that may be introduced into the academic arena of contemporary Eastern Studies, as well as their interviews and memoirs.
We hope that art historical Eastern Studies will attract both supporters of traditional Eastern art and researchers of its modern forms and creative processes as these unfold following different venues connected to the East and its dialogue with the European and especially the Ukrainian cultural and academic environment.

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The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. ... more The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. E. Kotlyar, S. Rybalko, O. Koval. – Kharkiv: The Center for Eastern Studies of KSADA, 2008. – # 9 (Vol. 1). – 208 p.
Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв. Сходознавчі студії / Упор. Є. Котляр, С. Рибалко, О. Коваль. – Харків: Центр сходознавства ХДАДМ, 2008. – № 9 (Вип. 1). – 208 с.

Papers by Eugeny Kotlyar

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Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, 2021

Котляр Євген. «Народжений творити: Академія в колі століття. Слово редактора з нагоди ювілею» [“B... more Котляр Євген. «Народжений творити: Академія в колі століття. Слово редактора з нагоди ювілею» [“Born to Create: the Academy of the Century. The Editor’s Introduction on the Occasion of the Anniversary“], Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв [Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts] 2 (2021): 6-28.

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Bulletin of Lviv National Academy of Arts, 2023

Котляр Євген, Лю Мінсюань. «Образ міста в китайській культурній традиції та візуальній практиці: ... more Котляр Євген, Лю Мінсюань. «Образ міста в китайській культурній традиції та візуальній практиці: від середньовіччя до ранньомодерного часу» ["The Image of the City in Chinese Cultural Tradition and Visual Practice: from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period"], Вісник Львівської Національної академії мистецтв [Bulletin of Lviv National Academy of Arts] 50 (2023): 38-47.

The article examines the problem of the artistic evolution of the image of the city in Chinese fine art. The focus of the authors’ attention is the study of the main stages of the development of the urban landscape genre. The purpose of the article is the analysis of the main stages of the development of the urban landscape genre
in Chinese art, as well as the study of its structural formalization and the formation of the repertoire from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. The subject of the research is Chinese art history discourse. The works of Chinese fine art of historical periods were used.
The authors found out that the development of the urban landscape genre is connected with the general evolution of the Chinese cultural tradition and its visual forms. They are a constant factor influencing the formation of visual tradition.
The article defines two stages of development of the urban landscape genre paradigm. The first continues from the time of the emergence of permanent pictorial forms (X century). Later, during the period of the Song dynasty (XII–XIII centuries) and the period of the Ming dynasty (XIV–XVII centuries), visual culture involved the urban landscape and urban everyday practices in the general artistic space of painting. In the context of the evolution of art during the Qing dynasty (XVII–XIX centuries), the urban landscape is represented for the first time with the help of genre features. According to the authors, these signs should be presented in the form of a combination of three components: 1) urban architectural landscape; 2) representations of typical models of urban life; 3) reproduction of typical city "cultural heroes".
The authors prove that the evolution of the urban landscape genre at various stages of development is connected with the processes of self-awareness of Chinese art and the determination of the forms of its identity.
Key words: Chinese fine art, Chinese painting, urban landscape genre, image of the city, evolution, Chinese art history discourse.

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Judaic-Slavic journal, 2020

Котляр Еugeny. Sergey R. Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia, 2 vols. Jerus... more Котляр Еugeny. Sergey R. Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia, 2 vols. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center and Center for Jewish Art, 2017. ISBN: 9789652273420. 848 p. [Рецензія]. Judaic-Slavic Journal 1 (3) (2020): 287-294.

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Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Jun 15, 2021

Котляр Євген. «Джерело натхнення: образи Худпрому в мистецькій ретроспективі. Передмова до альбом... more Котляр Євген. «Джерело натхнення: образи Худпрому в мистецькій ретроспективі. Передмова до альбому» [“Source of Inspiration. Images of Khudprom in Artistic Retrospect. Preface to the Album.“], Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв [Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts] 2 (2021): 263-276.

The historic building, built by architect K. Zhukov in 1913 for the Kharkiv Art School (now the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts), has become not only a national gem of Ukrainian architectural style and a local landmark, but also a source of inspiration for all generations of artists, who associated their destiny with him. The idea of ​​this publication is to visually represent the images of Zhukov’s “Teremok” (as Khudprom is cordially called) in the works of artists of different generations: from venerable classics to current students. This magazine exposition is built in several art sections, where an experienced viewer will see a kind of gallery space in the form of an “expanded” exhibition. It chronologically and genre-wise unites well-known Kharkiv artists and separate creative “bottegas”: graphics and linocuts, etchings, monumental-decorative art and graphic design, where student works are presented. They were all created over 70 years: from 1950th to the present. The last section is devoted to the search for the identity of the Academy with images of Khudprom. Most of them are graphic signs made by Kharkiv graphics for the anniversaries of the Academy. This retrospective demonstrates different approaches to the interpretation of a masterpiece in many types of art over time, and the inescapable significance of the Ukrainian “Temple of Art”, which “Teremok” found in the minds and works of all generations, for whom it became a symbol of Alma-mater.

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«ХУДПРОМ: Український журнал з мистецтва і дизайну», 2023

"HUDPROM: The Ukrainian Art and Design Journal" is academical publication devoted to the actual p... more "HUDPROM: The Ukrainian Art and Design Journal" is academical publication devoted to the actual problems of art history. The journal publishes scholarly research on history, theory, and interdisciplinary discourse in plastic arts and contemporary design, reviews of monographs, exhibition catalogues and teaching aids. The periodical invites academic scholars and addresses the researchers of fine arts, visual culture and design. The journal is published 2 times per year (June, December). The journal was founded in 2023. Until now, the periodical was published under the name "BULLETIN of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts", was founded in 1999.
ISSN 2786-7285 (online)

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ХУДПРОМ: Український журнал з мистецтва і дизайну, 2023

"ХУДПРОМ: Український журнал з мистецтва і дизайну" (ISSN 2786-7285 - online) - наукове видання, ... more "ХУДПРОМ: Український журнал з мистецтва і дизайну" (ISSN 2786-7285 - online) - наукове видання, присвячене нагальним проблемам мистецтвознавства. У журналі публікуються матеріали наукових досліджень з історії, теорії та міждисциплінарного дискурсу в галузі образотворчого мистецтва й дизайну, наукові рецензії на монографії, на каталоги художніх проєктів та навчальні посібники. Журнал запрошує академічних науковців, пошукачів учених ступенів і звань та звертається до дослідників з образотворчого мистецтва, візуальної культури й дизайну. Періодичність: 2 номери на рік (червень, грудень).

"HUDPROM: The Ukrainian Art and Design Journal" (ISSN 2786-7285 - online) is academical publication devoted to the actual problems of art history. The journal publishes scholarly research on history, theory, and interdisciplinary discourse in plastic arts and contemporary design, reviews of monographs, exhibition catalogues and teaching aids. The periodical invites academic scholars and addresses the researchers of fine arts, visual culture and design. Journal is published: 2 times per year (June, December).

Kotlyar Eugeny, Teter Magda. THE LIGHT OF THE REVIVAL. Stained Glass Design for Restituted Synago... more Kotlyar Eugeny, Teter Magda. THE LIGHT OF THE REVIVAL. Stained Glass Design for Restituted Synagogues of Ukraine by Eugeny Kotlyar. Catalog of the Exhibition at the Walsh Family Library at Fordham University, September 10 — December 10, 2023, New York: The Center for Jewish Studies at Fordham University, 2024, 56 p.

The catalogue of the exhibition “THE LIGHT OF THE REVIVAL: Stained Glass Design for Restituted Synagogues of Ukraine” offers a broad perspective on the revival of Ukrainian synagogues after Ukraine’s independence, showcasing three sets of stained-glass windows, which were designed by Eugeny Kotlyar and partially implemented in Ukrainian synagogues in the period from 1995 to 2005. Two early works shown here were the first samples of stained-glass designs for modern Ukrainian synagogues, which set a new trend. The first of them — the stained-glass windows for the Kharkiv Choral synagogue (1995) on the theme of Jewish Holidays. The second project — an ensemble of stained-glass windows for the Kyiv synagogue in Podil (2002) — focuses Holy Places of the Land of Israel and the Tribes of Israel. And, the third work Jerusalem and the Tribes of Israel is a part of the original design of the Torah Ark itself in the Galitska synagogue in Kyiv (2005). In Kotlyar’s artistic vision, the stained-glass window projects the light, turns the metaphysical into the physical, materializes the speculative image, and, ultimately, fills the prayer with color and light.

Eugeny Kotlyar is a professor at the Department of Art History and the chair of the Department of Monumental Paintings at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (KSADA). He is also a curator of the Center for Eastern Studies of KSADA and the chair of the Academic Board of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies (UAJS). His research focuses on Jewish art, Jewish heritage in Ukraine, synagogue decorations, and Kharkiv Jewish local lore.
Trained as an artist and art historian, Kotlyar designed stained-glass windows for synagogues and Jewish community centers in many cities of Ukraine. In 2022–2023, he was a virtual fellow in the AAJR-Fordham-NYPL Ukrainian Fellowship Program.

The catalog presents the works of the exhibition project ’HAPPINESS SQUARED‘; an artistic event a... more The catalog presents the works of the exhibition project ’HAPPINESS SQUARED‘; an artistic event aimed at supporting young artists. The project was launched in the spring of 2020 during the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, which practically paralyzed life in our society. The project was envisaged as a kind of art therapy for creative youth who were cut off from the usual ways of communication and left alone. Artists were asked to concentrate on the positive and visualize their feelings of happiness on a canvas 1 square meter in size (hence the name of the project). Thirty-four artists, comprising both students from various years and graduates of KSADA’s Department of Monumental Painting responded to this call, creating between one and three paintings each. As a result, 39 works of art are presented, grouped into four blocks in the finished project. They visualize certain modes of contemplation and visualization of images of happiness, and also reflect the ontological nature of this phenomenon in various phases of its development: waiting (“Inspiration”), contemplation (“Weightlessness”), acquiring (“Acquisition”), and transformation (“Transgression”). This project combined individual visions of happiness into a collective phenomenon and grew into an artistic study of its psychological, emotional, and social nature. Thus, the exhibition revealed a mechanism for emerging from a crisis and a difficult situation which has the power to prompt the viewer to search for their own path to happiness and its individual formula.

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The present thematic issue of the Bulletin is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of KSADA (1921–2... more The present thematic issue of the Bulletin is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of KSADA (1921–2021). It includes materials of scientific research on the history of the development and formation of higher art and design education in Kharkiv for the entire period of the existence of this higher educational institution, the formation of creative and scientific schools, the revision of individual artists, designers and art critics. The academic part is supplemented with unique archival materials, memoirs of old school artists and memoirs of contemporaries about past events and outstanding figures of the Kharkiv Art School, that carry the voices of the past to us. A separate section examines the signifi cance of the historical building of KSADA as a monument of architecture and a symbol of Ukrainian style, a place of creative power, a source of inspiration for artists of all generations and an image, which became a part of the identity of the university. A separate visual section with albums of the university’s photo chronicles for a century and reproductions of works of art with images of the Khudprom unfolds a panorama of the life and work of our art community. Traditionally, we add a section with scientific reviews of monographs and catalogs of art projects. The Bulletin invites academic scholars, applicants for degrees and titles, and appeals to researchers, teachers and students in visual arts, visual culture and design.
Нинішній тематичний номер ВІСНИКу присвячений 100-річчю ХДАДМ (1921–2021). Він включає матеріали наукових досліджень з історії розвитку та становлення вищої мистецько-дизайнерської освіти у Харкові за весь період існування вишу, з формування творчих і наукових шкіл, доробку окремих мистців, дизайнерів і мистецтвознавців. До академічної частини додаються унікальні архівні матеріали, мемуари мистців старої школи та спогади сучасників про минулі події та видатних постатей харківської художньої школи, що доносять до нас голоси минулого. В окремому розділі розглядається значення історичного корпусу ХДАДМ як пам’ятки архітектури та символу українського стилю, місця творчої сили, джерела натхнення для митців усіх поколінь та образу, який увійшов до айдентики вишу. Окрема візуальна частина з альбомами фотолітопису вишу за століття та репродукціями мистецьких творів з образами Худпрому розгортає панораму життя та творчості нашого мистецького середовища. Традиційно додаємо розділ з науковими рецензіями на монографії та каталоги художніх проєктів. ВІСНИК запрошує академічних науковців, пошукачів учених ступенів і звань та звертається до дослідників, викладачів і студентів з образотворчого мистецтва, візуальної культури й дизайну.

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The Bulletin publishes scholarly research on history, theory, and interdisciplinary discourse in ... more The Bulletin publishes scholarly research on history, theory, and interdisciplinary discourse in plastic arts and contemporary design, reviews of monographs, exhibition catalogues and teaching aids. The periodical invites aсademic scholars and addresses the researchers, educators, and students of fi ne arts, visual culture and design.
У збірнику публікуються матеріали наукових досліджень з історії, теорії та міждисциплінарного дискурсу в галузі образотворчого мистецтва й дизайну, наукові рецензії на монографії, на каталоги художніх проєктів та навчальні посібники. Вісник запрошує академічних науковців, пошукачів учених ступенів і звань та звертається до дослідників, викладачів і студентів з образотворчого мистецтва, візуальної культури й дизайну.

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The Bulletin publishes scholarly research on history, theory, and interdisciplinary discourse in ... more The Bulletin publishes scholarly research on history, theory, and interdisciplinary discourse in plastic arts and contemporary design, reviews of monographs, exhibition catalogues and teaching aids. The periodical invites aсademic scholars and addresses the researchers, educators, and students of fine arts, visual culture and design.
У збірнику публікуються матеріали наукових досліджень з історії, теорії та міждисциплінарного дискурсу в галузі образотворчого мистецтва й дизайну, наукові рецензії на монографії, на каталоги художніх проєктів та навчальні посібники. Вісник запрошує академічних науковців, пошукачів учених ступенів і звань та звертається до дослідників, викладачів і студентів з образотворчого мистецтва, візуальної культури й дизайну.

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The project showcases a gallery of self-portraits of contemporary young artists who were trained ... more The project showcases a gallery of self-portraits of contemporary young artists who were trained at different times at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts at tne Department of "Monumental Painting". The presented works reflect the diverse artistic experience and personal view of the authors through the prism of their "I" on the eternal theme of human, including female, destiny, with its passions and desires, purpose and inevitability, sublime beauty and earthly temptations. Contemporary art is illuminated through the prism of a retrospective panorama of the theme "Adam and Eve" in its various plot echoes. This allows us to show how the aesthetic ideas of mankind about their nature have developed over time, helps the viewer to make a modern portrait of our generation in its best, female half.
Проект демонструє галерею автопортретів сучасних молодих мисткинь, які в різні часи пройшли вишкіл у Харківській державній академії дизайну і мистецтв за фахом «Монументальний живопис». Представлені твори віддзеркалюють різноманітний мистецький досвід та особистісний погляд авторками крізь призму свого «Я» на одвічну тему людської, зокрема жіночої, долі, з її пристрастями і бажаннями, призначенням і неминучістю, піднесеною красою і земними спокусами. Сучасне мистецтво висвітлюється крізь призму ретроспективної панорами теми «Адам і Єва» у її різних сюжетних відгомонах. Це дозволяє показати, як розвивалися в часі естетичні уявлення людства про свою природу, допомагає глядачеві скласти сучасний портрет нашого покоління в його кращій, жіночій половині.

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Working with the naked nature is an integral part of art education, which hone skills, shape tast... more Working with the naked nature is an integral part of art education, which hone skills, shape tastes and creative tastes, revive academic study. During for centuries, female nature has been the embodiment of the changing ideal of beauty, the appeal to which gave rise to the world's favorite genre of art. It was in this genre of "nude" that the change of aesthetic canons of femininity in its grace and sacrifice, restraint and chastity, sensuality and emotionality, eroticism, self-sufficiency, even brutality, etc. was observed. In works of monumental art, women's nudity from ancient times embodied the archetypes of beauty and strength, motherhood and fertility, fragility, intimacy and passion. For students of the monumental class, full-scale productions have always combined classical training with creative experimentation and the search for new artistic language, picturesque expressiveness, decorativeness and stylistics. They awakened creative energy, stimulated the disclosure of individuality. The modern generation of young monumentalists of the KSADA presents these searches in a wide range of plastic solutions.
Робота з оголеною натурою є невід’ємною складовою художньої освіти, яка відточує майстерність, формує смаки та творчі вподобання, пожвавлює академічне студіювання. Впродовж століть жіноча натура була втіленням мінливого ідеалу краси, звернення до якого породило найулюбленіший жанр світового мистецтва. Саме в цьому жанрі «ню» унаочнювалась зміна естетичних канонів жіночності в її граціозності та жертовності, стриманості та цнотливості, чуттєвості та емоційності, еротичності, самодостатності, навіть брутальності тощо. У творах монументального мистецтва жіноча нагота з давнини уособлювала архетипи краси і сили, материнства і родючості, крихкості, інтимності та пристрасті. Для студентів монументального класу натурні постановки завжди поєднували класичний вишкіл з творчим експериментом та пошуком нової художньої мови, живописної виразності, декоративності та стилістичності. Вони пробуджували творчу енергію, стимулювали до розкриття індивідуальності. Сучасна генерація молодих монументалістів ХДАДМ представляє ці пошуки в широкому діапазоні пластичних рішень.

The catalogue presents the materials of a photographic exhibition dedicated to the wall paintings... more The catalogue presents the materials of a photographic exhibition dedicated to the wall paintings of eight synagogues located in the Northern (Ukrainian) and Southern (Romanian) Bukovinian region. The catalogue features analytical articles, historical reviews and recent photographs with descriptions and explanations, as well as graphic reconstructions. They shape a holistic view of the eastern European tradition of synagogue wall painting and its regional peculiarities. An in-depth analysis of the iconography, semantics and artistic approaches to traditional motifs enables the reader to realize the profound spiritual content and social value of the cultural heritage of Eastern European Jewry largely lost during Holocaust and as a result of policies of the post-war authoritarian regimes.

This Guide-book includes three thematical routes: “The Old Addresses of Jewish Kharkov”, “Memoria... more This Guide-book includes three thematical routes: “The Old Addresses of Jewish Kharkov”, “Memorial Places of Kharkov Holocaust” and “Karaites on Kharkov Map”; materials on history and culture of the old Jewish and Karaite communities and the present day national life; information about outstanding people among Kharkov’s Jews and Karaites.

The publication presents educational and artistic project "Neshama: Through Art to the Heart". It... more The publication presents educational and artistic project "Neshama: Through Art to the Heart". It includes a trip overview, art works resulted from the expedition to the former Jewish shtetls of Ukraine taken by Kharkov's young artists in August 2011, artists' impressions from encountering Jewish art and culture, their ideas on how to incorporate this legacy in their creative work, and the exhibition catalog. Artistic works created for the exhibition "Jewish Atlantis" show us how the world of shtetl appears to our contemporaries and what it means to our generation.

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The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. ... more The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. E. Kotlyar. – Kharkiv: The Center for Eastern Studies of KSADA, 2011. – # 9 (Vol. 4: Jewish Art and the Ukrainian Context: Within the Stream of European Modernity). – 456 p.
Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв. Сходознавчі студії / Упор. Є. Котляр. – Харків: Центр сходознавства ХДАДМ, 2011. – № 9 (Вип. 4: Єврейське мистецтво і український контекст. У руслі європейських новацій). – 456 с.
The Center for Eastern Studies at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (KSADA) is pleased to introduce the Fourth Volume of Eastern Studies, a special issue of the Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. This is the second part of the research and academic publishing project titled “Jewish Art and the Ukrainian Context,” which has brought together researchers of Jewish Art from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Israel, the US, and Canada.
The present volume is devoted to the “alternative route” taken by Jewish art. This is the road which, by contrast with art cultural traditions developed at earlier times, beckoned and led in unsuspected directions, occasionally culminating in a cul-de-sac or else in world-historical achievements in the search for one’s own “national” creative path. A sustained academic interest taken in the genesis of “secular” Jewish art has continually been directing researchers’ attention to Ukraine. The Ukrainian lands not only provided a fruitful soil for the flowering of the traditional forms of art; they also proved to be the most fitting environment in which a different set of shoots sprouted, thus by right making Ukraine one of the chief alma maters of Jewish modernism. This and other, related questions make up the principal foci of the studies collected in the present volume.
The secularization of Jewish art and the emergence of the Jewish theme within the framework of European cultural space; the images of the Jewish world in the work of the non-Jewish masters; and national themes in the works of Jewish artists, as well as “universal” subjects which formed the concern of Jewish artists working outside the Jewish national context, became an autonomous area of Jewish artistic endeavor, which embarked on a course of rapid growth and development beginning in the mid-1800s. Despite the fact that this art was still focused on the traditions and visual notions familiar from within the Jewish world, whence this art derived its plastic imagery, motifs, types, typologies, and symbols, it was already deeply involved in solving new problems of its own. These problems were no longer bound up with the daily round of life within the traditional fold, but were rather in the process of generating an overall source of creative motivation, a civil position, and a means of self-identification for Jewish artists. The formal means at the disposal of art and the accumulated national imagery were conceived of as an instrument for the free expression of the Jewish artists’ sense of the universe and of their anxieties and hopes. They lived and breathed their art, bearing their national and universal notions into the European world beyond the confines of their familiar surroundings.
Access to an academic art education along with the modernization of Jewish life as a whole permitted Jewish artists to develop a broader view of their past and their future. These changes enabled the Jewish artists to foster a vision of their national history, finding a way to reflect this vision in their works in accord with the cultural paradigms of their times, and fitting it within the framework of the dominant art styles. Radical socio-political changes in European life of the first decades of the 20th century, the tragedy of Jews in Ukrainian lands, as well as contemporary revolutionary metamorphoses – all had a drastic impact on the nature of Jewish art. From a tradition depicting the daily round of the “inmates of the ghetto,” this art broke out into the revolutionary open of the avant-garde and the conceptual space of creating the “new Jew.” A certain conceptual paradigm had been formed; borrowing from the phraseology abundant in the writings of Ryback and Aronson, the ideological leaders of the Kultur-Lige Jewish association in Kiev, we should say that the Jews were no longer willing to mimic or “take” from world art. They now wanted to make a contribution of their own, to add their own fresh and pristine spurt of national feeling to the streaming life of the arts. The language of plastic expression transcended the limits of thematic frameworks, becoming the subject of an independent and self-sufficient means of expression for different creative ideas, including ones of a national bent.
The displacement of the nationalistic conception of art by class ideology, followed by the Holocaust in Europe, and, later, by the rule of the anti-Semitic Soviet regime, for all intents and purposes, wiped out the Jewish thematic from the life of art. Ukrainian independence and democratization of society restored this sphere as a part of national culture, directing to it the attention of Ukrainian artists, some of whom stayed, continuing to work in Ukraine, while others dispersed over the face of the globe.
The present issue for the first time introduces “Annales,” a new rubric for the reporting and discussion of academic and artistic news. The new heading will lead into coverage of the academic and research forums of the last few years in Ukraine and abroad, which were devoted to Jewish art, the preservation and representation of the Jewish heritage, creative expeditions and research field trips, exhibits, and other international symposia, where Art Judaica materials have been making their appearance.
In keeping with the traditions of earlier issues, the present volume includes book reviews and surveys responding to the publication of materials related to Jewish Studies at home and abroad. The volume also includes announcements of leading art historical periodicals concerned with Jewish art, as well as specific publications in periodicals, which shed light upon developments in this field.
The editors and compilers of the present volume wish to express their gratitude to colleagues from the Center for Eastern Studies, and to Ukrainian, Russian, and overseas researchers for their work and collaboration in preparing this publication. A special thanks is due to Elen Rochlin (Jerusalem) and to Vita Susak (Lviv) for their translations of articles and other materials which went into the making of this volume. We also wish to thank Oleg Koval, Konstantin Bondar (Kharkiv), and Gregory Kotlyar (New York) for their academic and organizational assistance in making the publication of the present volume possible.
The significance of the present publication goes far beyond yet another confirmation of the very fact of the existence of Jewish art. It also testifies to the profound integration of Jewish art into the creative, socio-cultural, and generally civilizational processes unfolding as a part of the life of contemporary society. The absence of state territory associated with the Jews in the past made the art of the Jewish People unlimited in many ways. Together with Jewish art, Ukraine itself, which was the locus of the origination of this art and the place from which this art retransferred and where it again returned to draw upon subject matter and imagery, became a point of significance in the archives of world cultural memory.
In the words of Pavel Zholtovsky, an outstanding Ukrainian art historian and researcher of Jewish art, the artistic strata of this memory constitute a peculiar kind of “umbra vitae” – a shadow of the life of its creators. But, coming to light in the general academic and social turnover of today, this memory becomes the carmen vitae, the song of the life of Jewish art, in which not only Jewish, but also Ukrainian and general European tones make themselves felt. The dialogic exchange of cultures is not simply oriented to face toward the past; it also postulates future models of “one’s own” and “the alien,” of the national and the universal, which are yet destined to find and establish themselves in an era of the erasing of boundaries and of world globalization.

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The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. ... more The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. E. Kotlyar. – Kharkiv: The Center for Eastern Studies of KSADA, 2010. – # 8 (Vol. 3: Jewish Art and the Ukrainian Context: Horizons of Traditional Artistic Culture). – 360 p.
Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв. Сходознавчі студії / Упор. Є. Котляр. – Харків: Центр сходознавства ХДАДМ, 2010. – № 8 (Вип. 3: Єврейське мистецтво і український контекст. Обрії традиційної художньої культури). – 360 с.
The Center for Eastern Studies at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts (KSADA) presents the Third Volume of Eastern Studies, a special issue of the Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. This is the first time that an entire issue of a Ukrainian academic journal is devoted to Jewish art. The present volume deals with topics of traditional art and culture; the Fourth Volume will present current research findings in Art Judaica and work of Jewish artists beyond the scope of tradition. The two volumes’ special focus, “Jewish Art and the Ukrainian Context,” has attracted numerous submissions by scholars from Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Israel, the U.S., and Canada. The essays included in our collection are evidence of considerable international interest in Jewish art and cultural heritage that are in some way directly or indirectly bound up with Ukraine.
In setting ourselves the goal of bringing together in the Ukrainian academic field both native and overseas researchers of Art Judaica, we hardly expected to see such a thematically diverse spectrum of material submitted for publication. To introduce it to the general academic reader, we want to note that Jewish art on Ukrainian soil has been marked by extraordinary achievements, masterworks, and names which have become a part of not only Jewish, but also world art culture. Traces of antiquity and the Middle Ages, influences of the Rec’ Pospolita and of three world empires – Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman – as well as of other countries and states, made Jewish culture in this region inimitably variegated. This culture took on a shape all its own, manifesting itself in a variety of temporal and cultural milieus. The universe of the Eastern European Jewish shtetl produced a cultural environment that brought to life astounding works of Ashkenazi Jewish art, including wooden and stone “defense”-style synagogue architecture and ritual objects made of stone, clay, metal, wood, and textiles, which served in the Jews’ daily round and ritual. The architectural and object surroundings of the former Jewish shtetls along with the graves of the Chasidic masters (the Zaddiks), sites of mass pilgrimage by Chasidim from all over the world, by their power of mass attraction today constitute a historical landscape in their own right.
The traditional artistic universe of the Pale of Jewish Settlement, discovered by Shimon An-sky, became, in the art historian Abram Efros’ phrase, an “Aladdin’s lamp,” a source of living inspiration for the Jewish avant-garde tearing beyond the limits of the ghetto and leading forth into the world open artists such as Chagall, Lissitzky, Ryback, and dozens of others who set the fashion and the shape of world modernism. In addition, the artistic heritage of the Crimean Jews and Karaites reflected the coalescence of cultural Jewish elements with the Turkic-Tatar world. These phenomena are making a comeback today, after having sustained varying levels of loss due to the wars and totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Contemporary Art Judaica in many ways is a turn to addressing this world, simultaneously combining evolved national forms and novel ideas with the universal objectives of art.
World academic forums and periodicals devoted to Judaica and Jewish art have long been working to introduce Eastern European Jewish Studies, as well as Jewish Ukrainian cultural discourse, into the scholarly context of today.
In bringing this discipline into the foreground, we are, in effect, conveying to the reader the collective art historical research of the very phenomenon of Ukraino-Judaica, as it was capaciously labeled by the well known ukrainist Marten Feller. This phenomenon has in many ways determined the cultural diversity of Ukraine, especially Ukraine’s Western regions, lending them a peculiar image of their own; it also conditioned the mutual integration of the Ukrainian context with the European and world cultural and hermeneutic space.
This volume includes articles on Jewish ritual objects and traditional art, historical-artistic heritage and collections of decorative and applied craft works.
We are grateful to colleagues at the Center for Eastern Studies, and to Ukrainian, Russian, and overseas researchers for their participation in preparing this volume. Special thanks to Elen Rochlin (Jerusalem) and Bogdana Pinchevskaya (Kyiv) for their translations of materials included in the present volume, as well as to Oleg Koval and Konstantin Bondar (Kharkіv) and Gregory Kotlyar (New York) for their academic and logistical support for the appearance of the present collection in print.
We hope that the publication of this collection will not only prove of interest for specialists and the public concerned with landmarks of traditional Jewish culture in Ukraine, but that it will also attract the attention of those responsible for the preservation of Ukraine’s multinational heritage. This is a priceless resource for future generations and the development of modern tourist and pilgrimage infrastructures, where the Jewish urban historical heritage, and, especially, the heritage of the shtetls, occupies a niche all its own.

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The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. ... more The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. E. Kotlyar. – Kharkiv: The Center for Eastern Studies of KSADA, 2009. – # 12 (Vol. 2). – 260 p.
Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв. Сходознавчі студії / Упор. Є. Котляр. – Харків: Центр сходознавства ХДАДМ, 2009. – № 12 (Вип. 2). – 260 с.
The Center for Eastern Studies at KSADA is pleased to present the second volume of the Journal of Eastern Studies, a special issue of the Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, which is devoted to artistic and cultural issues in Eastern Studies.
As compared with our first experiment, the second issue is testimony to significant growth in the geographic spread and thematic variety of the articles on the art of the East and the East-West artistic dialogue. The present issue features articles and reviews by authors from seven countries: Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Georgia, Poland, Japan, and China. In addition, Ukraine is represented by a number of cities: Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lviv, and Simferopol.
The issue opens with a series of essays demonstrating the span of the temporal and geographic horizon of Eastern Studies. Thus, Aleksei Chekal turns to the art of Edessa of the 1st-3rd century, and the connection of a funerary mosaic with the art traditions of Palmyra and Osrhoene. The Chinese researcher Tian Rui analyzes city sculpture in China at the turn of the 21st century, in which national tradition and post-modern tendencies of Contemporary Art have met and become intertwined.
The study of Islamic art is represented by the work of Nuria Akchurina-Muftieva on the topic of the water sources and architectural design of the famous Crimean fountains, whose special features the author examines through the prism of Islamic artistic traditions. This is our first essay in Islamic Studies, and we look forward to expanding in this area. In addition, it is specifically issues in Islamic Studies that formed the principal concern of the school of Gordeev – Zummer, whose traditions we aim to restore. We hope that among our future contributors there will be researchers of the art and material culture of the Eastern peoples of the Crimea.
Issues in Japanese culture and art are traditional subject matter for the Center for Eastern Studies and for our publication. They are represented by the scholarly sketch by Svetlana Rybalko, devoted to the traditions of Japanese dress and its intertextual ties with different types of ukiyo-e; the article by Yulia Tormysheva about the most recent trends in Japanese netsuke art of the 20th-21st centuries; and the study by Chieko Owaki on Ukrainian-Japanese cultural dialogue as realized through David Burlyuk’s exhibitions in Japan. The article on the role of women in modern Japanese art, our publication’s first essay in English, was submitted by the Polish scholar Magdalena Furmanik-Kowalska.
The material surroundings, specific features, and reflection of the tea ceremony in art form the object of consideration for another Chinese scholar, Tsu Fenley. The international complex of articles deals with the traditions and artistic innovations in Judaica. The paper by Oleg Koval considers the issue of ties between verbal and iconic cultural codes in Jewish art. The 1924 «Self-Portrait» by El Lissitzky is discussed from the perspective of a verbal-visual synthesis, introducing a series of artistic and cultural issues in its wake.
We are for the first time presenting the unpublished materials of the art historian and scholar Dr. Faina Petryakova, which the Center for Judaica and Jewish Art in Lviv has generously made available to us in her memory. Two articles are devoted to the history of Jewish museums and their collections. Eugeny Kotlyar traces and analyzes the fate of Jewish collections dating from the periods of the Russian Empire and the USSR, brought together primarily on the territory of today’s Russia and Ukraine. The study by Lela Tzitzuashvili deals with the Jewish Historico-Ethnographic Museum in Georgia, as well as with the grassroots amateur artist Shalom Koboshvili, the «Jewish Pirosmani» who depicted the daily life and customs of Georgian Jews. Olga Shkolnaya’s essay provides a general view of Jewish porcelain production in Ukrainian lands, and the contribution of Jews to the development of this area of industrial endeavor. Bogdana Pinchevskaya’s research involves comparing Polish and Ukrainian historiography of the study of the Lviv artistic union «Artes», which numbered many Jews among its members. The as yet unfamiliar to us in art name of Mark Strauss, a former Lvovian who survived the Holocaust and became an accomplished artist in the US, is brought back to his country by the art historian Dr. Orest Golubets.
In the present issue we introduce a number of changes. A new section has been added, where we plan to publish little known documents, letters, archival materials, memoirs, and travel notes which have a connection to Eastern Studies. The first materials to be included in this section are memoirs by the art historian Dr. Mikhail Selivachev on the Jewish theme in his life and work, as well as Vita Susak’s interview with the American artist Roy Gussow, a student of Alexander Arkhipenko. These materials have all been prepared specially for the second issue of the Bulletin.
In keeping with the tradition initiated by the first issue, this volume concludes with a series of the book reviews and exhibition catalogues.
We are grateful to our colleagues from the Center for Eastern Studies and to Ukrainian and overseas researchers for their cooperation in preparing the present issue. We invite specialists from Ukraine and foreign countries to take part in our future publications by submitting their articles, book reviews, archival or little known documents that may be introduced into the academic arena of contemporary Eastern Studies, as well as their interviews and memoirs.
We hope that art historical Eastern Studies will attract both supporters of traditional Eastern art and researchers of its modern forms and creative processes as these unfold following different venues connected to the East and its dialogue with the European and especially the Ukrainian cultural and academic environment.

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The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. ... more The Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts. Journal of Eastern Studies / ed. E. Kotlyar, S. Rybalko, O. Koval. – Kharkiv: The Center for Eastern Studies of KSADA, 2008. – # 9 (Vol. 1). – 208 p.
Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв. Сходознавчі студії / Упор. Є. Котляр, С. Рибалко, О. Коваль. – Харків: Центр сходознавства ХДАДМ, 2008. – № 9 (Вип. 1). – 208 с.

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Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, 2021

Котляр Євген. «Народжений творити: Академія в колі століття. Слово редактора з нагоди ювілею» [“B... more Котляр Євген. «Народжений творити: Академія в колі століття. Слово редактора з нагоди ювілею» [“Born to Create: the Academy of the Century. The Editor’s Introduction on the Occasion of the Anniversary“], Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв [Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts] 2 (2021): 6-28.

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Bulletin of Lviv National Academy of Arts, 2023

Котляр Євген, Лю Мінсюань. «Образ міста в китайській культурній традиції та візуальній практиці: ... more Котляр Євген, Лю Мінсюань. «Образ міста в китайській культурній традиції та візуальній практиці: від середньовіччя до ранньомодерного часу» ["The Image of the City in Chinese Cultural Tradition and Visual Practice: from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period"], Вісник Львівської Національної академії мистецтв [Bulletin of Lviv National Academy of Arts] 50 (2023): 38-47.

The article examines the problem of the artistic evolution of the image of the city in Chinese fine art. The focus of the authors’ attention is the study of the main stages of the development of the urban landscape genre. The purpose of the article is the analysis of the main stages of the development of the urban landscape genre
in Chinese art, as well as the study of its structural formalization and the formation of the repertoire from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. The subject of the research is Chinese art history discourse. The works of Chinese fine art of historical periods were used.
The authors found out that the development of the urban landscape genre is connected with the general evolution of the Chinese cultural tradition and its visual forms. They are a constant factor influencing the formation of visual tradition.
The article defines two stages of development of the urban landscape genre paradigm. The first continues from the time of the emergence of permanent pictorial forms (X century). Later, during the period of the Song dynasty (XII–XIII centuries) and the period of the Ming dynasty (XIV–XVII centuries), visual culture involved the urban landscape and urban everyday practices in the general artistic space of painting. In the context of the evolution of art during the Qing dynasty (XVII–XIX centuries), the urban landscape is represented for the first time with the help of genre features. According to the authors, these signs should be presented in the form of a combination of three components: 1) urban architectural landscape; 2) representations of typical models of urban life; 3) reproduction of typical city "cultural heroes".
The authors prove that the evolution of the urban landscape genre at various stages of development is connected with the processes of self-awareness of Chinese art and the determination of the forms of its identity.
Key words: Chinese fine art, Chinese painting, urban landscape genre, image of the city, evolution, Chinese art history discourse.

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Judaic-Slavic journal, 2020

Котляр Еugeny. Sergey R. Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia, 2 vols. Jerus... more Котляр Еugeny. Sergey R. Kravtsov, Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia, 2 vols. Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center and Center for Jewish Art, 2017. ISBN: 9789652273420. 848 p. [Рецензія]. Judaic-Slavic Journal 1 (3) (2020): 287-294.

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Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Jun 15, 2021

Котляр Євген. «Джерело натхнення: образи Худпрому в мистецькій ретроспективі. Передмова до альбом... more Котляр Євген. «Джерело натхнення: образи Худпрому в мистецькій ретроспективі. Передмова до альбому» [“Source of Inspiration. Images of Khudprom in Artistic Retrospect. Preface to the Album.“], Вісник Харківської державної академії дизайну і мистецтв [Bulletin of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts] 2 (2021): 263-276.

The historic building, built by architect K. Zhukov in 1913 for the Kharkiv Art School (now the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts), has become not only a national gem of Ukrainian architectural style and a local landmark, but also a source of inspiration for all generations of artists, who associated their destiny with him. The idea of ​​this publication is to visually represent the images of Zhukov’s “Teremok” (as Khudprom is cordially called) in the works of artists of different generations: from venerable classics to current students. This magazine exposition is built in several art sections, where an experienced viewer will see a kind of gallery space in the form of an “expanded” exhibition. It chronologically and genre-wise unites well-known Kharkiv artists and separate creative “bottegas”: graphics and linocuts, etchings, monumental-decorative art and graphic design, where student works are presented. They were all created over 70 years: from 1950th to the present. The last section is devoted to the search for the identity of the Academy with images of Khudprom. Most of them are graphic signs made by Kharkiv graphics for the anniversaries of the Academy. This retrospective demonstrates different approaches to the interpretation of a masterpiece in many types of art over time, and the inescapable significance of the Ukrainian “Temple of Art”, which “Teremok” found in the minds and works of all generations, for whom it became a symbol of Alma-mater.

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Ідеї, смисли, інтерпретації образотворчого мистецтва: Українська теоретична думка XX століття: Антологія , 2021

This article is a historiographic excursion to the research on Jewish art, museumification of art... more This article is a historiographic excursion to the research on Jewish art, museumification of art monuments and objects, restoration and memorialization of architectural monuments of the Jewish community, as well as the works of Jewish artists of Ukraine from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Such a retrospective look shows the developments of the old art history school of the pre-war period, the created network of specialized Jewish museums, departments or collections. The author of the article surveys the names, art associations, ideas and manifestos of Ukrainian Jewish artists and scholars of the pre-war Ukraine. This article analyzes between two generations of Art Judaica: the artists and researches of the 1920s and the 1990s. The author argues that the results of thirty years of the Ukrainian independence show an intense and varied artistic life, in which the entire area of Ukrainian Art Judaica is revealed its inexhaustible potential, enriching the entire landscape of Ukrainian culture.
Kotlyar E. Art-Judaica in the Ukrainian Cultural Space: from the Background to the Modern Landscape // Ideas, Senses, Interpretations of Fine Arts: Ukrainian Theoretical Thought of the XX-th Century: Anthology / ed. by R. Yatsiv. – Part 4. – Lviv: Lviv National Academy of Arts; Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Scientific Society named after Shevchenko, 2021. – P. 244-262. (in Ukrainian)
Котляр Є. Арт-юдаїка в українському культурному просторі: від бекґраунду до сучасного ландшафту // Ідеї, смисли, інтерпретації образотворчого мистецтва: Українська теоретична думка XX століття: Антологія / Упоряд. Р.М. Яців. – Частина 4. – Львів: Львівська національна академія мистецтв; Інститут народознавства НАН України; Наукове товариство ім. Шевченка, 2021. – С. 244-262.

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Цайтшрифт, 2020

This article is a historiographic excursion to the research on Jewish art, museumification of art... more This article is a historiographic excursion to the research on Jewish art, museumification of art monuments and objects, restoration and memorialization of architectural monuments of the Jewish community, as well as the works of Jewish artists of Ukraine from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. Such a retrospective look shows the developments of the old art history school of the pre-war period, the created network of specialized Jewish museums, departments or collections. The author of the article surveys the names, art associations, ideas and manifestos of Ukrainian Jewish artists and scholars of the pre-war Ukraine. This article analyzes between two generations of Art Judaica: the artists and researches of the 1920s and the 1990s. the author argues that the results of thirty years of the Ukrainian independence show an intense and varied artistic life, in which the entire area of Ukrainian Art Judaica is revealed its inexhaustible potential, enriching the entire landscape of Ukrainian culture.

Котляр Е. Арт-иудаика в украинском культурном пространстве. "Цайтшрифт. Журнал по изучению еврейской истории, демографии и экономики, литературы, языка и этнографии". Вильнюс: Европейский гуманитарный университет, Центр еврейских исследований, 2020. Т.7 (12). С. 70-100.

Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, 2020

There are approximately ten historical synagogue buildings left in Ukraine today which continue, ... more There are approximately ten historical synagogue buildings left in Ukraine today which continue, to varying extents, to preserve their original wall paintings and decoration. A number of these were only
recently discovered. The attempts underway, beginning in the early 2000s, to preserve as well as uncover old paintings often produce the opposite effect, destroying authentic works. The cultural significance
of these historical landmarks requires that they be included in a single international register, along with supervision and an agreed upon preservation program designed individually for each. Synagogue wall
paintings will inevitably perish unless ways of transferring this heritage are sought that will move these works to a different and more reliable “medium of cultural memory”. Different, innovative approaches to museum preservation and ways of presenting these works to public view are called for. Among the tried and tested options are: reconstructing old synagogue interiors which contain wall or ceiling paintings; using motifs taken from the original paintings in new works being produced for the Jewish community; and work on exhibition projects, catalogues and two-dimensional reconstruction models.
Kotlyar Eugeny, Sokolyuk Lyudmyla, Pavlova Tetiana. "Synagogue Decorations in Present-Day Ukraine: Practice in Preserving of Cultural and Artistic Heritage," Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo 8, # 4 (2020): 111-136.

REVISTA ARTA, 2020

Jews’ and Ukrainians’ long history and status under Polish rule unite the two groups in a single ... more Jews’ and Ukrainians’ long history and status under Polish rule unite the two groups in a single socialcultural context. The 1600-1700s flowering of Ukrainian ecclesiastical and secular art introduced a unique vocabulary of terms, archetypes, and mythologems related to the paradigm “Ukrainian Baroque”. In periods of state integration, the Ukrainian Baroque became a vehicle of expression for the nation’s spirit, embodying a national ideal. The Baroque’s duplicitous language, combining reality with illusion, provided artistic expression for the religious and cultural-daily dimensions of the “cosmos of shtetl Jewry,” fusing its wealth of forms, symbolism, and illusoriness with folk culture and naiveté. Baroque esthetics encompassed traditional art along with religious-philosophical poetics and Hasidism, which was close to the Ukrainian thinker Grigoriy Skovoroda’s “philosophy of the heart.” 2012 saw the exhibit devoted to the “Myth of the Ukrainian Baroque” at the National Art Museum of Ukraine, which included traditional Jewish art. But by contrast with the legitimated “Ukrainian Baroque,” which had grown into a national idea, “Jewish Baroque” remained only an identity marker, Eastern European Jewry’s patriarchal tag congealed in traditionalist molds, modernist and contemporary Jewish deliberations. This provides sufficient grounds for debate concerning the conventionalized use of the term.
Kotlyar Eugeny. "Baroque in National Artistic Traditions: Comparative Experience of Jewish and Ukrainian Cultures,," Revista Arta. Seria Arte Vizuale, Arte Plastice, Arhitectură. Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul Patrimoniului Cultural, Centrul Studiul Artelor (red. şef. Mariana Şlapac). Serie nouă. Vol. XXX, nr.1. Chişinău: Institutul Patrimoniului Cultural al Academiei de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, 2020. P. 134-141.

IMAGES. A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, 2019

The present article studies the thematic ways in which Jewish childhood was represented in Russia... more The present article studies the thematic ways in which Jewish childhood was represented in Russian Jewish art and visual media from the 1850s to the 1930s. During this period, Russian Jewry was undergoing important transformations. It saw the establishment of a traditional model of religious life, a subsequent process of modernization and acculturation, and finally the education of the “New Jew” as part of post-Revolutionary secular culture, as well as the seeding of extreme forms of radicalization that would develop in the Soviet era. Jewish art and visual media were always a documentary means of representing collective ideals, key among which was the value associated with Jewish children’s future. The images preserved in art, photography, and print show how diligent study for boys and young men was extolled in traditional communities; this resulted in the formation of an intellectual elite that served as a bulwark of religious and spiritual self-consciousness against outside cultural influences. Along with historical-statistical studies and memoirs, these images recreate a psycho-emotional and social background for the traditional model of children’s education. On the one hand, this model perpetuated the lifestyle and values established over the centuries, yet on the other, it sparked charges of anachronism and fanaticism, which intensified the antagonism of Russian society toward its Jewish minority. The same model proved to be extremely influential for the Jewish masses; it came by its iconic visual representation in various “Cheder” compositions and portraits of the “Talmudist Iluy.” Both types of works brought out the value of religious education. Later artistic depictions demonstrated that upon passing through the grinder of the Soviet atheist system, this model inspired the zeal that Jews had for secular education and the prospect of their children’s being granted equal opportunity, resulting in the loss of their ethno-cultural identity in the new Soviet reality.
Kotlyar Eugeny. "Jewish Childhood Transformed: Through the Looking Glass of Art and Visual Representation in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russia," Images. A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture (ed.: Maya Balakirsky Katz). Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2019. Vol. 12. Issue 1 (Oct 2019). P. 33-55.

Народознавчі Зошити, 2020

ARCHITECTURAL SKETCHES BY MYKHAYLO DYACHENKO Summary: Introduction. The article is devoted to sci... more ARCHITECTURAL SKETCHES BY MYKHAYLO DYACHENKO
Summary: Introduction. The article is devoted to scientific and artistic heritage of Mykhaylo Dyachenko, an Ukrainian artist, publicist, ethnographer and educator who worked productively in these areas during 1909―1931. His biography, artistic and scientific achievements have only begun to be analyzed in recent years.
Problem Statement. In this article, for the first time, drawings of architectural structures made by a research artist during 1926—1928 in Cherkasy and Chernihiv districts are described. The names of all currently known images are listed. Attention is drawn to sketches of the synagogue in Cherkasy, Ukrainian folk and palace architecture of Pryluchyna, Chernihiv district.
Conclusion. The conclusion is made about important role of Danylo Shcherbakivsky in the implementation of analyzed activity by Mykhaylo Dyachenko. Mykhaylo Dyachenko's place among Ukrainian architecture researchers is outlined. In particular, thanks to the drawings of the synagogue in Cherkasy, their author's name was put in parallel with other Ukrainian scholars and museum workers of the 1920s—1930s, whose efforts formed a scientific base for monuments of Jewish material culture in Ukraine that were soon destroyed. Architectural sketches were made by Dyachenko in Pryluchyna as a result of field studies, during which the most outstanding samples of palace construction were recorded, as well as the most typical, characteristic and original samples of Ukrainian ethnic building in its general forms and individual details. So, he is considered to be one of leading researchers in this field. Mykhaylo Dyachenko's artistic heritage was analyzed against the background of biographical data explaining the reasons for interest in these regions.

Keywords: Mykhaylo Dyachenko, Danyla Shcherbakivsky, synagogue in Cherkasy, Pryluchyna, drawings.

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Judaic-Slavic Journal , 2019

The article examines the interwar period in the life and work of two architects, Usher Chiter (18... more The article examines the interwar period in the life and work of two architects, Usher Chiter (1899–1967) and Elyukim Maltz (1898–1973), both graduates of the Odessa School of Architecture.During that time the architects were doing work for the Mendele Moicher Sforim All-Ukrainian Museum of Jewish Proletarian Culture in Odessa. Based on documents and visual materials from a number of museums and archives located in Ukraine, Russia and Israel, as well as on private collections (including those of families of architects from Moscow, where Chiter and Maltz moved in the late 1920s),the author attempts to trace and reconstruct the two architects’ research expeditions across the former Pale of Jewish Settlement. A total of seven field trips were conducted in Podolia and the Soviet part of Volhynia – with the aim of collecting materials and exhibition items for the museum and of making nature drawings and watercolors showing Jewish sites, such as synagogues, cemeteries and residential buildings. This empirical approach exemplifies the method of preserving and representing disintegrating Jewish shtetls, commonly practised during the interwar period. The work of both architects is viewed through the prism of musealization of Jewish heritage in the early Soviet period which was closely connected to the formation of state ideology and its transition from «building of the national identity» to class paradigm and atheistic upbringing.

From Ausgleich to the Holocaust. Ukrainian and Jewish Artist of Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv (ed. by Sergey R. Kravtsov, Ilia Rodov and Małgorzata Stolarska-Fronia). – Weimar-Rostock: Grünberg Verlag, 2019

The present essay was inspired by the research on wall paintings of two synagogues located on dif... more The present essay was inspired by the research on wall paintings of two synagogues located on different sides of the Atlantic but which share the same tradition with Eastern European roots. One of them is the Cori Gilod (Ẓori Gilead) Synagogue built in 1924 in Lviv, the center of East Galicia, which was painted in the second half of the 1930s and implies the late period of the flourishing of synagogue decoration before it was terminated by the Holocaust. These wall paintings were preserved after the Nazi occupation and were renovated in 2007 during the restoration works in the synagogue. Unfortunately, the original painting was lost at that stage. Another synagogue was founded by Jewish immigrants from Białystok (Bialystoker Shul) in 1905 in New York, in the Lower East Side, in a building of a former Protestant church. These murals also date to the 1930s. These were made during the Great Depression for the “moral support of US Jews to commemorate their heritage.” Like in Lviv, the wall paintings of this synagogue have been preserved, though for another reason. In contrast to the many immigrants’ synagogues that were later modernized, closed, or sold to become churches, the community has never abandoned the building that was fully renovated in 1988. Comparative analysis of these renewed synagogues that still keep their original features in their decoration programs, subjects and iconography of the wall paintings highlights a more general phenomenon, namely peculiarities of transferring the Eastern European Jewish traditions, particularly in synagogue murals, to the USA. This phenomenon could be illustrated by New York, especially in the Lower East Side, a center of Jewish immigration at its peak time between 1880 and 1914.

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Judaica Ukrainiсa. Peer-reviewed annual journal in Jewish Studies , 2017

Though bestowing de jure equality and freedom on the Jews of the former Russian Empire, the Revol... more Though bestowing de jure equality and freedom on the Jews of the former Russian Empire, the Revolution and Civil War simultaneously shattered the Jewish world with bloody pogroms, impoverishment, and the destruction of traditional ways of life. This new reality permanently altered the face of what would become Soviet Jewry, a body born out of the physical and spiritual torment of the transitional period. Culture and art reflected the situation: corresponding treatment of synagogue images in artistic works illustrated the ongoing drama, as synagogues – the chief locus of Jewish life – were being destroyed in front of one’s eyes. The present article makes use of an art-historical study to examine the evolution of the image of the synagogue in the artistic works of the period, as seen through the prism of Jewish discourse. It analyzes the semantic content of the image as a special motif and marker of Jewishness in the visual art of the revolutionary era.
If in previous years ethnographism and genre art had dominated the depiction of such motifs, during the years of revolutionary convulsion the treatment and distortion of synagogue images gradually came to reflect a sense of ruin and horror. In certain cases these depictions reached a climactic, even apocalyptic intensity. Artists utilized various visual idioms and modernist styles – Cubo-Futurism, Expressionism, lubok (woodcut) style, etc. – to achieve a deeper symbolic and emotional resolution of the subject. Within a few years the works of leading representatives of the modernist Kultur-lige association transformed the image of the synagogue from a typical marker of the Jewish oecumene into a tragic symbol of its destruction. Works such as Abram Manevich’s The Destruction of the Ghetto (1919), El Lissitzky’s Had Gadya (1917–1919), and Issachar Ber Ryback’s large series Pogrom (1918), among others, came to serve as representations of various aspects of and psycho-emotional responses to the collapse of the Jewish world.
The subjects portrayed in such works included: the destruction and depopulation of the previously crowded, even packed shtetl; the horror of waiting for a pogrom, as well as bloody scenes of actual violence presented via the traditional narrative of “the labor pains of the Messiah”; and literal self-sacrifice in the spirit of the medieval tradition of Kiddush ha-Shem (“Sanctification of God’s Name”). Compositional and figural resolutions of the synagogue as a place for uniting the whole community with God came to embody the Jewish outlook on life – a living entity, as it were, sharing with the Jews their tragic fate. This development reflected personal tragedies and the general Jewish context, in which the theme of anti-Jewish violence bore an atemporal character. Artists including Ryback also made extensive use of other idioms: the synagogue enveloped in flames; the destruction and desecration of the synagogal prayer space, with the aron kodesh (Torah ark) on fire, martyred Jewish figures, discarded Torah scrolls, and so forth.
These images merged with long-established symbols of the galut (exile/diaspora): the depiction of a goat and the eternally exiled Wandering Jew. All these motifs corresponded with Jewish historical, religious, and literary tradition, while also formulating a definite iconography that would be picked up by artists of subsequent decades.

Kotlyar E. Premonition of Apocalypse: Synagogue Images and the Motif of the Destruction of the Jewish World in Art of the Revolutionary Period // Judaica Ukrainiсa. Peer-reviewed annual journal in Jewish Studies (ed.: Serhiy Hirik, Börries Kuzmany). – K.: Laurus, 2017. – Vol. 6. – С. 51-82.
Котляр Е. Предчувствие апокалипсиса: образы синагог и тема крушения еврейского мира в искусстве революционного времени // Judaica Ukrainiсa. Peer-reviewed annual journal in Jewish Studies (ed.: Serhiy Hirik, Börries Kuzmany). – K.: Laurus, 2017. – Vol. 6. – С. 51-82.

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Revista ARTA, 2017

Special significance is associated with visualizing the duality of God in synagogue wall painting... more Special significance is associated with visualizing the duality of God in synagogue wall paintings in Eastern Europe. Taking a glance at synagogue decoration as a system of binary oppositions lets us come up with an entire series of compositions depicting the Divine principle which dictates cosmological cyclicity, acts as judge over God’s Chosen People, and rules this People’s history and religious piety.
Among these works, compositions thematizing Jewish historical time (mourning the exile from the Promised Land and expressing the hope for a Messianic return to the Holy Land of the Forefathers); the labor of delving into the secrets of Torah study and the joy of achieving this; the balance of Divine and demonic forces in creation; and Divine bounty and blessing for the righteous and retribution for evildoers.
The metaphorical language of the paintings, based on the prohibition against representing the human body, combined Jewish didactics and symbolism with medieval emblematic imagery. Most of the compositions were interpreted via images familiar from bestiaries or else via the motif of the Tree of Life, which would be shown as an instrument of God’s will. Based on passages in the Torah, Rabbinic sources, and medieval culture, these images would at different times form a part of the synagogue painting repertoire, reflecting the God-fearing, mystical spirit of Eastern European Jewry.
Kotlyar, Eugeny. The Theme of God’s Mercy and Retribution in Eastern European Synagogue Wall Paintings, in Arta. Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul Patrimoniului Cultural, Centrul Studiul Artelor / ed. by Mariana Şlapac. Seria Arte Vizuale, Arte Plastice, Arhitectură. Serie nouă. Vol. XXVI, nr.1, Chişinău: Institutul Patrimoniului Cultural al Academiei de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, 2017, p. 61-68. (in Russian)
Котляр Евгений. Тема божественной милости и кары в росписях синагог Восточной Европы // Arta. Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul Patrimoniului Cultural, Centrul Studiul Artelor (red. şef. Mariana Şlapac). Seria Arte Vizuale, Arte Plastice, Arhitectură. Serie nouă. Vol. XXVI, nr.1. – Chişinău: Institutul Patrimoniului Cultural al Academiei de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, 2017. – С. 61-68.

National political movements of XIX - XX centuries, such as Hovevei Zion, Halutz and Zionism effe... more National political movements of XIX - XX centuries, such as Hovevei Zion, Halutz and Zionism effected the transition of the messianic paradigm of return to Eretz Israel. The traditional messianic paradigm was pushed to the background by the practical problems of repatriation to Palestine, land development and the formation of new Yishuv. The process of building of a national home in Eretz Israel contributed to the convergence of Jewish religious worldview with romantic dreams and social ideals of the Zionists.
Combining in Jewish identity the religious spirit on the one hand and the secular and national aspirations on the other hand found its reflection in similar processes in the arts: architecture, synagogue murals, ritual arts, etc. This notion is evident in the Eastern European tradition of synagogue painting, with its programme and a wide subject repertoire.
For instance, in Palestine proper the traditional synagogue decorations with their pathos of impending heavenly life evolved into a romantic picture of everyday Jewish life in Eretz Israel, and Bible stories became augmented with Halutz motives. Image of Temple as a sacred edifice, which symbolizes the Messianic Israel, transformed into modern secular buildings such as “temples” of Education, Science and Art (Hebrew University, School of Arts and Crafts Bezalel in Jerusalem, Gymnasium Herzliya and the Municipal School in Tel Aviv). In turn, the traditional programme of synagogue decoration in Israel, as well as Europe and the countries of emigration got complemented by new cycles of “Holy Places of Eretz Israel,” “12 Tribes of Israel,” “7 fruits of Israel,” the Zionist motives, secular subjects and images of modern buildings in Palestine. In addition to the synagogue decorations, these trends became manifested in the visual decorations of ketubbot and other forms of ritual art.
The advancement of these new trends was effectuated by various parties, including and the School “Bezalel” in Jerusalem, with its proclaimed goal to “create art that benefits all the Jews of the world and strive to build and decorate a new temple to messianic times” (B. Schatz). Among those who had a direct impact on the integration of Zionist ideals into traditional visual culture were Ephraim Lilien, Ze'ev Raban and others, as well as the Jewish National Fund, which arose in the Diaspora Jewry the idea of the Jewish revival in Eretz Israel, including through means of art.
The paper, using a great number of examples of monuments of Jewish Art of Eretz Israel, Europe and the United States will demonstrate the process of modernization and transformation of the traditional programme of Eastern European synagogue decorations influenced by the ideology and aesthetics of Zionism.
Kotlyar Eugeny, «"If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem." Eastern European Synagogue Decoration in the Zionist Paradigm,» Art in Jewish Society. Ed. by Jerzy Malinowski, Renata Piątkowska, Małgorzata Stolarska-fronia, Tamara Sztyma. (The Second Congress of Jewish Art in Poland / World Art Studies. Conferences and Studies of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies. Vol. XV. Warsaw–Toruń: Polish Institute of World Art Studies & Tako Publishing House, 2016. P. 60-72.

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Eugeny Kotlyar. "Nostalgia for the Unknown Homeland. Near and Distant Past of Western Ukraine. Jo... more Eugeny Kotlyar. "Nostalgia for the Unknown Homeland. Near and Distant Past of Western Ukraine. Jottings from the Trip" (series: “Finding Sambatyon”), in The League of Culture. Odessa, 2016, Vol. 9. P. 13-25.

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Eugeny Kotlyar. "Paths and Landings of Old Moldavia…" (series: “Finding Sambatyon”), in The Leagu... more Eugeny Kotlyar. "Paths and Landings of Old Moldavia…" (series: “Finding Sambatyon”), in The League of Culture 8 (2016): 15-20.

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This paper explores research into monuments of Jewish art conducted by a Ukrainian art historian ... more This paper explores research into monuments of Jewish art conducted by a Ukrainian art historian Pavlo Zholtovsky (1904-1986), the only scholar of the Soviet period who in the post WWII years published materials on this subject introducing it in the academic and cultural space, firmly believing that it belongs to the Ukrainian art. The article analyzes its subject matter through the historic context of live and work of the Scholar. A vast range of Pavlo Zholtovsky's works is introduced, including photographic collections of Jewish material culture and art gathered during his field expeditions to Volyn, Podolia and Kiev Region from 1929-1930 (currently in the collection of Institute of the Manuscript of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine), memoirs with “Jewish” themes; research articles and materials published in magazines and monographs between 1950s-1980s. Using this great body of work whose importance for contemporary researchers is impossible to overestimates, the author demonstrates the outstanding contribution made by Pavlo Zholtovky in the field of historiography and propagating Jewish Art, and promoting the idea of multi-faceted nature of Ukrainian cultural heritage.
Kotlyar Eugeny. Ukrainian Judaica by Pavlo Zholtovsky // Narodoznavchi Zoshyty (The Ethnology Notebooks) Magazine. – Lviv: Ethnology Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2016. – # 2 (128). – P. 418-450.
Котляр Є. Українська юдаїка Павла Жолтовського // Народознавчі зошити. – Львів: Інститут народознавства НАН України, 2016. – Число 2 (128), березень-квітень. – С. 418-450.

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The article talks about the life and works of an outstanding St. Petersburg architect Yakob Gevir... more The article talks about the life and works of an outstanding St. Petersburg architect Yakob Gevirtz (1879-1942), whose heritage to a great extent is connected to the edifices erected for the needs of the Jewish community. Gevirtz’s original style, created under the influence of the Moderne epoch, is analysed in the context of the all-European discourse on the national forms of Jewish architecture.
Котляр Евгений. Меж Классикой и Востоком: Яков Гевирц и поиски национальной формы в еврейской архитектуре начала XX в. // Параллели. Русско-еврейский историко-литературный и библиографический альманах. – М.: Дом еврейской книги, 2015. – № 13-14. – С. 253-292.
Kotlyar, Eugeny. “Between Classics and the East: Yakob Gevirtz and search for a national form of Jewish architecture of the early 20th c.” in Parallels. Russian-Jewish historical-literary and bibliographical almanac. – Moscow: House of Jewish Book, 2015. – # 13-14. – pp. 253-292. (in Russian).

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School of Arts and Crafts `Bezalel`, founded by Boris Schatz in Jerusalem, and become known in hi... more School of Arts and Crafts `Bezalel`, founded by Boris Schatz in Jerusalem, and become known in history as the `Early Bezalel` (1906-1932) was an unprecedented example of embodiment of the Jewish utopia: establishing a community of artists in Palestine and making it a brilliant commercial project in the field of Judaic art. Its revolutionary spirit was in the mix of ideas including communal labor, uniting all the Jews around the `artistic tabernacle of Zionism` and laying the foundation of national art in their historical homeland. The utopian nature of the project was in its cultural divorce from the realities of the time, conservativeness of the artistic means, and artistic kitsch, which all ran counter to the era of modernism. `Bezalel` became a symbol of dreams and the difficult formation of the young Jewish state.
Kotlyar, E. Boris Schatz and the Early `Bezalel`: The Utopia of Art and the Art of Management // Цайтшрифт. Журнал по изучению еврейской истории, демографии и экономики, литературы, языка и этнографии. – Минск–Вильнюс: Европейский гуманитарный университет, Центр еврейских исследований, 2014. – Т.9 (4). – С. 161-176.
Kotlyar, E. Boris Schatz and the Early `Bezalel`: The Utopia of Art and the Art of Management, Tsaytshrift. – Minsk–Vilnus: European Humanities University, The Center for Jewish Studies, 2014. – Vol.9 (4). – P. 161-176.

The article studies the pre-War period in the life and work of two architects, Usher Chiter (1899... more The article studies the pre-War period in the life and work of two architects, Usher Chiter (1899-1967) and Elyukim Maltz (1898-1973), both graduates of the Odessa School of Architecture. The time span in question was bound up with work done by the architects for the Mendele Mocher Sforim All-Ukrainian Museum of Jewish Proletarian Culture in Odessa. Based on documents and visual materials from a number of museums and archives located in Ukraine, Russia, and Israel, as well as on private collections, including those of the architects’ families living in Moscow, where Chiter and Maltz had moved in the late 1920s, we have attempted to trace and reconstruct the architects’ artistic research expeditions along the former Pale of Jewish Settlement. A total of seven field trips took place in parts of Western Ukraine – to Podolia and Volhynia – with the aim of collecting materials and exhibition items for the museum and of making original drawings and water colors from nature showing views of Jewish landmarks, such as synagogues, cemeteries, and residential housing construction. Six of these trips have been successfully dated with precision; we have also been able to trace the particularly extensive and productive research expedition of 1927, including an exact fragment of the expedition’s itinerary, in connection with surviving letters, as well as original works and reproduced copies. The architects did not limit themselves to the «Jewish quarter» alone; they also documented other sites, beginning with fortress-type building construction.
Dozens of views of Khmelnik, Izyaslav, Medzhibozh, Starokonstantinov, Novokonstantinov, Polonnoe, Berdichev, and other towns convey architectural images from a receding Jewish past; some of these compositions have appeared in other primary sources, while others are unique. These studies from nature evidence a method of preserving and representing the disintegrating milieu of Jewish shtetls, which was widespread in the pre-War period. The works also demonstrate the art education and training characteristic of architects of the old school.

Котляр Євген. Альбом мистецьких та наукових творів, мистецько-наукової діяльності [“Kotlyar Eugen... more Котляр Євген. Альбом мистецьких та наукових творів, мистецько-наукової діяльності [“Kotlyar Eugeny. Album of Artistic and Researcher Works and Activities”]. Kharkiv-Kyiv, 2023. 242 p.

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Фотопроект "На реках Вавилонских…" харьковского художника и искусствоведа Евгения Котляра являетс... more Фотопроект "На реках Вавилонских…" харьковского художника и искусствоведа Евгения Котляра является частью масштабной художественной выставки "Еврейская Атлантида", которая явилась итогом образовательно-творческого проекта "Нешама: через искусство к сердцу". Центральной частью проекта стала экспедиция художников по еврейским местечкам Западной Украины в августе 2011 г. Поездка включила посещение 25 населенных пунктов Центральной Украины, Волыни и Подолии, которые дали широкое представление о многовековой истории евреев Украины, их материальной культуре и искусстве, трагедии Холокоста.
"Плач на реках Вавилонских" удивительным образом превращается в плач на руинах местечка, отдается всепоглощающей ностальгией и грустью. Здесь царит особая атмосфера и остро ощущаемое дыхание древности. В каждом местечке почти один и тот же набор руин: замки, костелы, церкви, синагоги, кладбища, остатки монументальной старины и какое-то нелепое и обезличенное вторжение советского времени. И, вместе с тем, все это как-то по-особому скомпоновано, естественно и органично вписано в природный ландшафт. Вблизи ощущаешь архитектурную мощь и фактуру старого камня и дерева, устрашающий взгляд пустых готических окон, паутину улиц и подворотен. Но стоит подняться на возвышение или холм, как все местечко оказывается на ладонях – такое теплое, уютное, потаенное. На одном из таких холмов, быть может в Шаргороде, Сатанове или где ещё десять лет назад зародился фотопроект «Панорамы еврейского мира», который вышел сегодня далеко за пределы Украины. В нынешней экспозиции практически нет цвета. Черно-белые фотографии с легкой фактурой и обрамлением в духе оттисков со старых фотопластинок дают внешний эффект довоенной фотосъемки и играют с эстетикой пикторализма. Что же касается содержания панорамного кадра и его композиции – то это все та же попытка зафиксировать, а где-то и сконструировать эпический образ штетла – конкретного и собирательного, близкого и далекого.

The photo exhibition "On the Rivers of Babylon ..." made by Kharkiv artist and art historian Eugeny Kotlyar is part of the large-scale art exhibition "Jewish Atlantis", which was the result of the educational and creative project "Neshama: Through Art to the Heart." The central part of the project was an expedition of artists to the Jewish shtetls of Western Ukraine in August 2011. The trip included a visit to 25 former Jewish settlements in Central Ukraine, Volhynia and Podolia, which gave a broad idea of ​​the centuries-old history of the Jews of Ukraine, their material culture and art, and the tragedy of the Holocaust.
"Weeping on the rivers of Babylon" miraculously turns into crying on the ruins of the shtetl, reeks of all-consuming nostalgia and sadness. A special atmosphere and a keenly felt breath of antiquity reign here. In each place there is almost the same set of ruins: castles, churches, churches, synagogues, cemeteries, the remains of monumental antiquity and some kind of ridiculous and impersonal invasion of the Soviet era. And, at the same time, all this is somehow arranged in a special way, naturally and organically inscribed in the natural landscape. Up close you feel the architectural power and texture of old stone and wood, the intimidating look of empty Gothic windows, network of streets and gateways. But it is worth climbing a hill, as the whole place is in the palm of your hand - so warm, cozy, mysterious. On one of these hills, perhaps in Shargorod, Sataniv, or where ten years ago, the photo project “Panoramas of the Jewish World” was born, which today went far beyond the borders of Ukraine. There is practically no color in the current exhibition. Black and white photographs with a light texture and framing in the spirit of prints from old photographic plates give the appearance of pre-war photography and play with the aesthetics of pictoralism. As for the content of the panoramic frame and its composition, this is still the same attempt to fix, and somewhere to construct an epic image of a shtetl – concrete and collective, near and far.

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фотохудожник, куратор художніх проектів; головний творчий та науковий напрямєврейське мистецтво (... more фотохудожник, куратор художніх проектів; головний творчий та науковий напрямєврейське мистецтво (звернення до традиційної художньої культури та створення сучасного візуального простору); • членство у творчих, наукових та громадських організаціях: член Спілки дизайнерів України (з 2002), член Національної спілки художників України (з 2005), голова Академічної ради Української асоціації юдаїки (членз 2017, головаз 2022), член Міжнародної асоціації критиків мистецтва AICA (з 2018), член Художньої ради (зараз-Піклувальної ради) Харківського обласного благодійного фонду Єврейський культурний центр «Бейт Дан» (з 1998); член Всесвітньої та Європейської асоціацій юдаїки (різні роки, починаючи з 2001); • нагороди, гранти: нагороджений Грамотою Харківської обласної ради за сумлінну працю, високий професіоналізм, вагомий внесок у розвиток освіти і науки та з нагоди наукового конкурсу (1995), дипломант (Друга премія) Всеукраїнського конкурсу серед художніх училищ на кращий академічний рисунок оголеної натури (1990); отримав більш 10 міжнародних грантів на розробку творчих та наукових проектів (з 2003); • творчій доробок: автор творів у галузі монументального мистецтва (9 ансамблів вітражів, у т.ч. для двох синагог м. Києва і проект вітражів для синагоги у Харкові); дизайну середовища (8 інтер'єрів для громадських об'єктів, зокрема єврейських культурних центрів у Харкові, Сумах, Запоріжжі та ін.), експодизайну (2 музею єврейської історії та Голокосту у Харкові, 4 міжнародні пересувні виставки), графіки (біля 40 творів), графічного дизайну (12 реалізованих проектів виставкових стендів, книжкових та каталожних видань, елементів корпоративного дизайну, фірмових знаків, логотипів тощо, здебільшого для єврейських художньо-культурологічних проектів, об'єктів єврейської громади тощо), фотографіки (10 презентаційних фотографічних циклів, здебільшого пов'язаних з художньою презентацією єврейської спадщини); учасник більш 15 колективних та персональних виставок);