THE ART OF REVOLUTION: THE
POLITICAL AESTHETICS OF UKRAINE'S EUROMAIDAN
Posters from the early days in Independence
Square.
The
poster images that adorned Kyiv’s Independence Square or the Euromaidan during
the heady days of late November and December 2013 capture the energy and
vitality of this transformative process. The betrayal of Ukraine’s European
future by the country’s governing elite and their subsequent attempt at
brutally silencing both opponents and critics brought out hundreds of thousands
in protest to the Maidan.
Accompanied
by first-person accounts and other reports, the fifty posters displayed at
Oseredok circulated widely on the Maidan. Designed and created for mass
distribution through the medium of the private printer, they testify to a deep
desire for a change and are symbolic of the best impulses of a society
mobilizing in its own defense.
