The New York Times has compiled a list of the best art books that came out in 2022. This list also includes the illustrated edition " It was published in November by the British publishing house Thames \u0026 Hudson..

“This timely new title introduces us to more than 100 buildings and art, from prehistoric times to the Baroque era to the present with bomb shelters, in a country we now finally see as the heart of Europe.. This book, with chapters on Orthodox icons and Catholic cathedrals, the Soviet avant-garde and national folk crafts, illustrates a culture whose very diversity endangers it today - indeed, some of the depicted works, such as stone statues near Kharkov, dating from the 9th-13th centuries have already been destroyed.

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The compilers of the rating also emphasized that the war that Russia started and is waging in Ukraine is a cultural war, “and the stakes in it are as follows”.

The foreword to the book was written by Ukrainian writer Andriy Kurkov, and co-authors were culturologist Andrey Puchkov, historian Maxim Yaremenko and art critics Diana Klochko and Miroslava Mudrak. The publisher promised to transfer all proceeds from the sale of the publication to the Ukrainian PEN Center to support local museums..

As a reminder, as a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine, 1,132 cultural heritage sites have already been destroyed or damaged.. Of these, almost a third - 403 objects are completely destroyed.