[Rarebooks] FS - Ukrainian Underground Art

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

*KHASEVYCH, Nil - "Bey-Zot" and his Disciples. /UKRAINIAN UNDERGROUND 
ART Album of the Woodcuts made in Ukraine 1947-1950 by Artists of the 
Underground / Nil Khasevych and his Disciples 1947-1950./* Bound in 
original blue buckram with title embossed on board, woodcuts, Art. 
"Prolog", Philadelphia, PA. 1952. 4to, pp. 69. Corners bumped, sl. musty 
aroma; else clean, tightly-bound and in very good condition. Text is in 
English and Ukrainian facing. Statement on the copyright page says: 
"First copies of the woodcuts are kept in the archives of the Foreign 
Delegation of the Supreme Ukrainian Liberation Council (UHVR)." 
Preliminary text of 22 pages contains six articles (in English and 
Ukrainian) about the struggle for artistic freedom against Soviet 
repression and censorship. Remaining pages contain the illustrations, 
very nicely reproduced (often in more than one colour), with details 
underneath of subject and date engraving created. Very scarce item: 
WorldCat shows only three institutional holdings (National Library of 
Scotland, Dutch Defence Library, and University of
 Newcastle, Australia).

Khasevych was born into a poverty-striken family in the little Ukrainian 
village of Volynia in 1906. In 1926, he studied painting and graphic 
arts at the Academy of Arts in Warsaw. In 1932, he graduated with a 
teaching diploma but, being Ukrainian, he could not find work so he 
began specializing in woodcutting and Ukrainian calligraphy. In 1937, 
four of his woodcuts for bookplates won a prize at the International 
Exhibition of Woodcuts in Warsaw. During World War Two, Khasevych 
returned to the Ukraine and joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), 
fighting both the Nazis and the Soviets. He produced numerous woodcuts 
during and after the war which were highly politicized and critical of 
the two repressive regimes, and for the production of which he was 
subject to prosecution and puinishment. He died in 1952.

Price: $500.00.

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