City of Lions
Author(s): Jozef Wittlin and Philippe Sands
Portrait of a City in Two Acts: Lviv, Then and Now The Ukrainian city Lviv's many names (Lviv, Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg, Leopolis) bear witness to its conflicted past - it has, at one time or another, belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Poland, Russia and Germany, and has brought forth numerous famous artists and intellectuals. My Lwow, Jozef Wittlin's short 1946 treatise on the city he left in 1922, is a wistful and lyrical study of an electrifying cosmopolis, told from the other side of the catastrophe of the Second World War. Philippe Sand's essay provides a parallel account of the city as it is today: the cultural capital of Ukraine, its citizens played a key role during the Orange Revolution, and its executive committee declared itself independent of the rule of President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014. City of Lions includes both old black-and-white photos showing Lviv during the first half of the twentieth century, and new photographs by the award-winning Diana Matar, of the city as it is today.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Pushkin Press, Limited
- : Pushkin Press, Limited
- : 0.367
- : 30 September 2016
- : 165mm X 120mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 November 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : 160
- : 1612
- : Paperback
- : Jozef Wittlin and Philippe Sands