Pasychnyk L. Jeweller's Art of Ukraine through the XXth - Early XXIst Centuries (History, Stylistics, Personalities).

The thesis is the first comprehensive art critical investigation, which collects, classifies, analyses and generalizes the peculiarities of development of the XXth - XXIst-century Ukrainian jeweller's art, particularly the activities of jewellery industry enterprises, auctorial jewellery, and special features of jewellery-oriented art education. As a basis for analysing it is taken the jewels in the capacity of one of the most expressive works of small plastic forms. The authoress analyses the historiographical basis and sources, and actualizes the range of issues, which is covered in the present research work. The thesis elucidates the principal milestones of the Ukrainian jewellery's progress dynamics through the period under study on the base of the authoress's own collected material in the form of interview and photorecording of art works, museum pieces and displays of private collections. It also marks out artistic features and technological specificities of creative activities of Ukrainian artists of the period in question, as well as introduces a new factological material into scientific circulation and analyses the features of activity of the artistic gold working subdepartments of various Ukrainian educational institutions with the view of finding out the current state of art education, revealing its principal trends and outlining the developmental prospects of the jewellery field of activity in Ukraine.