Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Foreword 7
4. Acknowledgments 8
5. Introduction 9
6. 1. Painting Ukrainian Perestroika: A Parade of Excesses 10
7. 2. The Point of No Return: The Art of Kyiv at a Historical Crossroads 24
8. 3 Back and Down to Empty Landscapes: Notes on Ukraine’s Reverse Modernism 32
9. 4. Prodigal Children of Socialist Realism: New Ukrainian Art and the Soviet Art School 40
10. 5. Collecting Eras: A Conversation 46
11. Artists’ Statements 50
12. Plates 63
13. Selected Bibliography 133
14. Catalogue of the Exhibition 135
15. Index of Artists in the Exhibition 141
16. Contributors 143