Icons on Ammo Boxes: Painting Life on the Remnants of Russia’s War in Donbas, 2014-21 (Ukrainian Voices)

Icons on Ammo Boxes: Painting Life on the Remnants of Russia’s War in Donbas, 2014-21 (Ukrainian Voices)
by: Oleksandr Klymenko (Author),Sofia Atlanova(Author),Anastasya Knyazhytska(Translator)&0more
Publisher: ibidem Press
Publication Date: 2024/4/8
Language: English
Print Length: 160 pages
ISBN-10: 3838218922
ISBN-13: 9783838218922
Book Description
Translated from the Ukrainian by Anastasya KnyazhytskaThis book has come out of the art project “Icons on Lids of Ammunition Boxes”, initiated and led by Sofiia (Sonya) Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko. Painted on fragments of empty cartridge containers brought back from the front, the icons are silent witnesses to Russia’s covert war against Ukraine in the Donets Basin in 2014–2021. At the same time, they are testimony to the victory of life over death―not only in symbolic but also in real terms.Since the spring of 2015, the project was a volunteer initiative whose revenues support the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. This unit provided medical assistance to military personnel and civilians in the Anti-Terrorist Operation / Joint Forces Operation zone.The contributors to the book include Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Hennadiy Druzenko, Archimandrite Kyrylo Hovorun, George Weigel, and Zoya Chegusova.
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Translated from the Ukrainian by Anastasya KnyazhytskaThis book has come out of the art project “Icons on Lids of Ammunition Boxes”, initiated and led by Sofiia (Sonya) Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko. Painted on fragments of empty cartridge containers brought back from the front, the icons are silent witnesses to Russia’s covert war against Ukraine in the Donets Basin in 2014–2021. At the same time, they are testimony to the victory of life over death―not only in symbolic but also in real terms.Since the spring of 2015, the project was a volunteer initiative whose revenues support the Pirogov First Volunteer Mobile Hospital. This unit provided medical assistance to military personnel and civilians in the Anti-Terrorist Operation / Joint Forces Operation zone.The contributors to the book include Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Hennadiy Druzenko, Archimandrite Kyrylo Hovorun, George Weigel, and Zoya Chegusova. Read more