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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2025. № 6 (186), 1341—1345

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2025.06.1341

FROM ROMANTICISM TO PRAGMATICS PROFESSIONAL TASKS: ORIGIN OF OLEG SYDOR’S SCIENTIFIC THINKING (on the occasion of his 80th birthday)

YATSIV Roman

  • ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1509-5367
  • PhD, professor at the Artwood department
  • of the Lviv National Academy of Arts,
  • 38, V. Kubiyovycha str., 79011, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: jaciv@ukr.net

Abstract. The article is devoted to the life, scientific heritage and factors shaping the research program of the famous historian and art theorist, culturologist, museum curator, organizer of cultural and artistic life in Ukraine in the 1980s — the first two decades of the 20th century, Oleg Sydor (1945—2022). As a researcher of ancient Ukrainian art, he left behind a number of significant monographs and articles on various aspects of Ukrainian church painting, artistic practices of national modernism and modernity, particularly in the Ukrainian diaspora. One of the key issues that the author considered was the interaction of canon and style. At the same time, his attention also extended to the phenomena and creative personalities of the 20th and early 21st centuries. In general, the legacy and scientific ideas he left behind require appropriate systematization, professional qualification, and popularization. Oleh Sydor significantly expanded the source base of Ukrainian humanities, introduced a significant number of artistic names and their works into circulation. Special attention is paid to the early period of his activity as an art historian and museologist.

The object of the study is the scientific, scientific and journalistic heritage of O. Sydor and the set of biographical factors that influenced his research program, the subject is the author’s scientific ideas that became a contribution to Ukrainian art criticism of the late 20th and the first two decades of the 21st century.

The methodological basis of the research is creative-biographical, scientific-reconstructive and analytical methods, with a combination of classical art history and interdisciplinary humanities studies.

Keywords: Oleg Sydor, history and theory of art, Ukrainian church painting, icon, iconostasis, museum work, cultural heritage, Renaissance, Baroque, Job Kondzelevych, National Museum in Lviv, graphics, modernism, Ukrainian art of the 20th century.

Received 20.11.2025

REFERENCES

  • (1995). Oleg Sydor: Bibliographic Index. Lviv: Scientific and Artistic Foundation of Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky; National Museum in Lviv [in Ukrainian].
  • Yatsiv, R. (1998, March). Listening to the Appointment. Oleg Sydor. Towards, 1, 6[in Ukrainian]. 
  • (2001). Oleg Sydor: Bibliographic Index. Lviv [in Ukrai-nian].
  • Savchuk, V., Sydor, O., & Yatsiv, R. (Eds.). (2009). Artists’ Union «Club of Ukrainian Artists» — 20 (Album). Kyiv: Maisternya knygy[in Ukrainian].
  • Yatsiv, R. (2016). To the depths and new quality of scientific thinking (to Oleg Sydor — 70). The Ethnology notebooks, 5, 1015—1017 [in Ukrainian].
  • Yatsiv, R. (2022). The Aristocrat and His Path: In the Glorious Memory of Oleg Fedorovych Sydor (1945—2022) The Ethnology notebooks, 4, 1005—1008 [in Ukrainian].

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