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A richly illustrated book about one of the most prominent Ukrainian graphic artists of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Vasyl Lopata, contains biographical data about his dynamic, interesting and instructive life for the current period of development of Ukrainian culture. The destroyed village in Chernihiv region, brought to extreme poverty, is the childhood of the future master. The Art Institute and postgraduate studies in Kyiv under the guidance of renowned professors and academics Kassian and Derehus - these are the years of his talent formation. Establishing national themes in book and easel prints during the unprecedented Russification of Ukraine in the 80s and 90s was a hard Sisyphean labour, a struggle against conservatism and reactionary tendencies in Soviet socialist realist art.

The acquisition of a "new breath" after Ukraine's independence, the glorification of the Christian and national idea - these are the nineties. The work on the design of banknotes of the national currency of Ukraine, the hryvnia, is worthy of surprise. Finally, in 1994, he settled on the opposite side of the globe from Ukraine, in the United States, in San Francisco, where he continued his inspired work for the glory of Ukraine.

The study of Vasyl Lopata's life and work is accompanied by a detailed professional analysis of his series, cycles, and individual works of graphics and painting.

The book is intended for artists, cultural critics, a wide range of book lovers and art lovers.