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The album-catalogue presents the unique creative work of the outstanding Ukrainian artist Olena Kulchytska in the field of ethnography - her collection - Folk Clothing of the Western Regions of Ukraine-, which includes 426 works in various techniques: watercolours, graphic sketches in gouache, pen and pencil, linocuts. The book presents watercolours depicting folk burdens from such historical and ethnographic regions of Western Ukraine as Podillia, Pokuttya. Bukovyna, Hutsul region. Boikivshchyna. Opillya, Volyn, and Polissya, as well as from ethnic Ukrainian lands that became part of Poland or Slovakia after the Second World War. The collection shows old Ukrainian clothes of the late nineteenth and first third of the twentieth century, which the artist painted in 1955. The series covers a variety of samples and types of folk costumes: women's and men's clothing, everyday and festive, winter and summer, and wedding clothes from almost every ethnographic region. A significant part of the proposed book is a reprint of the album by O. /I. Kulchytska - Folk Clothing of the Western Regions of the Ukrainian SSR- (Kyiv. 1959), which contained 74 tables and annotations to them by Iryna Hurgula. The illustrative block of this section is not a reprint of the album. The reproductions for the present edition were made from original watercolours by O. Kulchytska, which are kept in the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv. The compilers have reconstructed the tables according to the author's intention. The illustrative section is complemented by reproductions of works from the entire collection of Western Ukrainian folk costumes and a few monuments depicting folk burdens from the central regions of Ukraine. The publication is completed by a complete catalogue of the collection with illustrations for each item.

For art historians, teachers, students, as well as for everyone interested in Olena Kulchytska's work and Ukrainian culture in general.