Творчий тандем «Самокиш-Васильківський»: до питання створення альбому «мотиви українського орнаменту»
Creative Tandem "Saniokish-Vasil'kovskij": to the Issue of Creating the "Motifs of Ukrainian Ornament" Album

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of Article. The purpose of research is connected with the study of the common cultural and creative activity of two Ukrainian artists of the late ХІХ-early XX centuries - S. Vasil'kovskij and N. Samokish. The publication suggests a solution to the question of correct identification of authorship and chronology of the publication of the "Motifs of Ukrainian Ornament" album. Methodology. The method of documentary analysis and synthesis, comparative analysis as well as art analysis were used. The mentioned approach allowed to trace the dynamics of the development of joint creative activity of both artists and to establish more precise parameters of the chronological affiliation of the famous album. Scientific novelty consists in the production of an actual theme, which is the first attempt to draw attention to the need to introduce the "Motifs of Ukrainian Ornament" album to a number of important historical and artistic artifacts of Ukrainian culture of the late ХIX-early XX centuries. Conclusions. The attempts to determine the release of the "Motifs of Ukrainian Ornament" album in the 1912 version of the theory do not have convincing documentary evidence; there is no doubt that the album of 1912 was published in Leipzig from S. Vasilkovsky and N. Samokish private funds in an amount of 2,400 copies, containing 40 polychrome tables and collected on the basis of materials of the ethnographic exhibition of the ХП Archaeological Congress in Kharkov in 1902, as well as the funds of the Ethnographic Museum in Poltava and the K. Skarzhynsjka’s meeting in 1905.

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