UDC 398.47 Polina Herchanivska National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3647-6265 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-28-2025-2.124-133 Keywords: archetype, witch, magic, sorcery, cultural memory, identity. Abstract. The semantic transformation of the archetypal image of the witch in Ukrainian culture is analyzed through the prism of historical, religious, gender, and sociocultural contexts. Its role in the formation of national…Continue reading The archetype of the witch in Ukrainian culture: transformation of the image from myth to contemporary counterculture

Violeta DemeshchenkoInstitute for Cultural Research, National Academy of Arts ORCID ID 0000-0001-8296-4628 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-28-2025-2.89-98Keywords: documentary film, reportage, information, journalism, real events, war. Abstract. This article examines the features of the development of Ukrainian documentary cinema during the largescale invasion of the RF on February 24, 2024 and outlines the main strategies and prospects for the…Continue reading Ukrainian documentary cinema during the Russian-Ukrainian war: strategies and perspectives

UDC 791.228.046:398.4:008](520)”19/20″(045 Illia Halushko Kharkiv State Academy of Culture,Kharkiv ORCID: 0009-0007-0281-4613 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-28-2025-2.60-74 Keywords: Japanese culture, culturology, ideology, demonology, demonic images, anime, Anime Studies. Abstract. The paper presents an attempt of culturological research of demonic images in anime as significant cultural markers of various ideologies. The purpose of the article is a comprehensive analysis of…Continue reading Ideological critique of demonic images in anime of the XX–XXI centuries

Oleksandra Oliinyk Institute for Cultural Research, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv.ORCID ID 0000-0002-2392-3938 DOI: Keywords: public goods, cultural dimension, interdisciplinary research, interdisciplinarity, cultural studies, theory of culture, economics of culture, cultural production. Abstract. This article covers the scope of research issues dealing with the arguments supporting the hypothesis that cultural goods — within…Continue reading Culture as production in the group of public goods

Lada Kolomiyets Dartmouth College, USA.ORCID ID 0000-0002-8327-6672 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-28-2025-2.99-112 Keywords: Babyn Yar, Holocaust, literature in Yiddish, Red Renaissance, Soviet Ukraine, Yiddish-Ukrainian translation. Abstract. The notable rise in Yiddish literary activity in Soviet Ukraine during the 1920s and early 1930s can be attributed to the Bolshevik policy of indigenization, which promoted minority languages such as Yiddish…Continue reading The Yiddish renaissance in Ukraine and its reflection in the Ukrainian poets’ early commemoration of the victims in Babyn Yar

UDC 792.034(477) Ihor Matiushyn Mariupol State University, Mariupol.ORCID ID 0009-0008-2254-3045 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-28-2025-2.113-123 Keywords: Baroque, stage culture, adaptation, actualization. Abstract. This article examines the genesis and stage evolution of Yakub Havatovych’s interlude within the context of the formation of Ukrainian national theatrical culture. Special attention is given to the textological analysis of the work and to…Continue reading “Dual world” phenomenon and the theatrical fate of Yakub Havatovych’s interlude “Klymko and Stetsko”

UDC 719:069.1:347.7 Maryna Mishchenko Institute for Cultural Research, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv.ORCID ID 0000-0002-2066-8097 DOI: Keywords: cultural heritage, monuments of cultural heritage, objects of cultural heritage, protection of cultural heritage, renovation of monuments, restoration. Abstract. The article defines the essence and content of the concept of “restoration of monuments of cultural heritage”…Continue reading Restoration of monuments of cultural heritage in modern conditions: new challenges and existing problems

UDC 7.045:688.76[316.75:159.937.515.5] Nadiia Babii Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk.ORCID ID 0000-0002-9572-791X DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-28-2025-2.75-88 Keywords: political colour, symbol, art practice, communication, aesthetics, identity, visual culture. Abstract. The publication explores the dynamics of the transformation of the blue-and-yellow colour marking and the associated national emblems and slogans in the 20th – second decade of the 21st…Continue reading “Yellow and blue”: from local marking to a cult symbol

UDC 7.038.6(4):008 Yuliia Sabadash Mariupol State University, Mariupol.ORCID ID 0000-0001-5068-7486 Stepan Yankovskyi (Jankowski) Mariupol State University, Mariupol.ORCID ID 0000-0002-4028-6037 DOI: https://doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-28-2025-2.41-49 Keywords: postmodernist art, transitional period, metamodernism, creativity, imitation, copying, remake, interpretation, metamorphoses. Abstract. Three key aspects of the current problematic field of cultural studies, aesthetics, and art history are synthesized: first, the theoretical reconsideration…Continue reading Davide Quayola: reformer of post-modern art

УДК 316.7:316.77:391.41(510) Oleksii Filipov Private Higher Educational Institution “Kyiv University of Culture”, Kyiv.ORCID ID 0009-0003-6079-4957 DOI: Keywords: generative art, digital art market, immersive technologies, multimedia installations, tokenization, blockchain in art, digital interaction. Abstract. The objective of the article is to theoretically substantiate the patterns of audiovisual art transformation in the context of rapid digital technology…Continue reading Basic digital technologies affecting audiovisual art