Angels new

Publishing house: Artbook
ISBN: 978-966-1545-39-6
Year: 2019
Language: ukrainian, english
1,800 UAH
Angels Artbook Publishing House, 2019. - 320 p. illustrated

The history of angels in the exhibition project and the book. The research covers the period from the antiquity to the modern art. We have considered the plots of iconography, celestial hierarchies and archangels. The book contains mainly the interpretations of the image of an angel in the Ukrainian and world culture – cathedral murals and sculpture, painting and graphic art, books and cinema. The final part reviews the tradition of the Guardian Angel, fantasy and mass culture, war and kitsch. The book is an anthology of the image of an angel and is based on the visual material and analytic texts. Published for the Angels exhibition held from June 20 to September 22, 2019, in Borys Voznytsky Lviv National Art Gallery and Johann Georg Pinsel Museum.

Printed with the support of UNIQA Insurance Company and Zagoriy Family Foundation.