title: The Ukrainian Link in the Global Network of Artistic Avant-Gardes (1908–1930)
abstract: The Chain Link [Zveno] was the title of the first avant-garde exhibition on the territory of present-day Ukraine, which opened in Kyiv in 1908.This article briefly overviews the formation of the notion Ukrainian avant-garde (in this volume also: Avant-Garde), its international representation, and recognition.The Ukrainian avant-garde, located between West and East, "between city and steppe," was receptive to different currents.It combined local traditions: the archaic, the Byzantine heritage, ic
journal: Schnittstelle Germanistik