Colors of Resistance: Visual Representations of Ukrainian History in Popular Editions at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Viktoriia Voloshenko

doi:10.33077/uw.25448730.zbkh.2025.881

Autor

Viktoriia Voloshenko Institute of Religion Studies – a branch of Lviv Museum of Religion History, Lviv, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-7870

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33077/uw.25448730.zbkh.2025.881

Słowa kluczowe:

historyczne wydania popularne,, ilustracje książkowe,, środowisko intelektualne i artystyczne,, opór antykolonialny

Abstrakt

In the face of the imperial monopoly on educational services in the Russian Empire, printed materials remained the main communication tool for broadcasting the Ukrainian view of its own history. The book illustrations images that reflected Ukrainian cultural uniqueness acquired the significance of unifying cultural codes for the formation of national identity, deconstructing the imperial version of the historical knowledge ordering.

The article analyses the ways of visualizing the Ukrainian past in historical popular editions as a form of counteracting cultural colonialism (Mark Pavlyshyn). Using the concept of border thinking by Walter D. Mignolo, the content of the visual language of book illustrations is considered in the multilayered space of the intercultural borderland, in light of the unfolding horizontal dialogue between Ukrainian intellectuals and artists on both sides of the Austrian-Russian border.

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