THE ART OF UKRAINE IN THE ART HISTORY OF CHINA: THE PROBLEM OF "VISION"

The article explores the problem of the scientifi c “vision” of the panorama of Ukrainian art by contemporary art historians of China who work on the problems of the Eastern European art (Belarus, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and other countries). It is determined that in the history of art of China information about Ukrainian art is not always represented correctly due to the already existing stereotypes which have come from the Soviet (now Russian) art history that has infl uenced the development of the art science in China. The tradition of studying Ukrainian art as part of Russian or Polish one is connected with the historical circumstances of the existence of these Empires, which comprised Ukrainian lands. The authors look for points of support in historical events, often not quite correctly interpreting the complex nature of Ukrainian relations within the imperial art (at the time of XVIII – XIXth centuries) and Ukrainian within the Soviet one (within the XX century)