about the book

(English and Ukrainian)
Lidia Lykhach and Mykola Kornienko
This is a beautiful album that would make a wonderful present for anyone interested in Ukraine and Ukrainian culture. It contains nearly 200 different cottage icon subjects from villages in central regions around the towns Cherkasy, Chyhyryn, Kaniv, and Uman. These icons span nearly three hundred years with the majority from the nineteenth century. Icons such as these formerly adorned virtually every village home. They were painted on wooden boards or on linen by non-professional village masters known as bohomazy. The research in this publication is the most detailed ever presented on Ukrainian naive iconography. The book is in two languages, English and Ukrainian, making it uniquely accessible to readers. The detailed descriptive list of icons in the back of the book is in three languages: English, Ukrainian and French.