Kostyukova V. Embroidery Art of Kyivshchynathrough the XX th to Early XXI st Centuries (Typology, Stylistics, Traditions and Modern Transformation).

The thesis is the first (in domestic art criticism) comprehensive scientific and practical investigation of the XXth - early XXIst centuries Kyivshchyna folk embroidery, which is a constituent part of the Ukrainian culture's national heritage. For the first time, there reveals a unique experiment of cooperation of the leading Avant-garde painters and folk artists in scientific and practical reproduction of embroidered decorative pictures after the sketches made in the early XXth century. The thesis carries out a complete analysis of the current state of research and theoretical and practical comprehension of the topic chosen by the authoress. There are also scrutiny and classification of historiographical sources, theoretical aspects and a considerable quantity of hitherto little known and completely unknown graphic and illustrative material in the museums and private collections in Ukraine and abroad. There are also distinction and description of handicraft textile infrastructure of Kyivshchyna: basic embroidery centres, localities, cooperatives, guilds and workshops that developed in the early XXth century. The paper analyses the typical stylistic manifestations of Art Nouveau and Avant-garde being reflected by their artistic imagery in the embroideries. It also reveals the creative experiment of collaboration of the professional Avant-garde painters and folk masters. Besides, there is a revelation of change dynamics of the stylistic trends that influenced the formation and development of the Kyivshchyna embroidery art in the XXth to XXIst centuries. There is conducted a scientific and practical study of the creative experiment at the embroidery localities in the villages Skoptsi and Verbivka in the early XXth century. For the first time, in the material reproduced are the embroideries after the sketches of professionals painters and folk masters, being the base of initiation and revelation of the story of conceiving the scientific and practical research project Revived Masterpieces, with the last being the special value of the dissertation's research.