Printing Modernity. Graphic Design and Book Art | Kultura 2026
Date and time:
Wednesday 2 December, 2026
18:30 - 20:00
Location:
ONLINE
This seminar investigates how books, magazines, typography, and graphic design became powerful tools for cultural experimentation in Ukraine during the turbulent years of revolution and state-building in the early twentieth century. At a moment when political institutions and cultural identities were being reimagined, artists, writers, and designers turned to the printed page to ask a fundamental question: what should a modern Ukrainian culture look like? Focusing on the emergence of a vibrant print culture in Kyiv and beyond, the seminar examines how print, illustration, and design became instruments of artistic innovation and cultural expression.
General £35 Student £25
Lecturer
Lauren Warner-Treloar, Kingston University London
Lauren Warner-Treloar is an art historian, curator, and translator specialising in Ukrainian and transnational art histories, print culture, graphic design, and book history. She is an AHRC Techne-funded PhD candidate in Art & Design History at Kingston University London, where she examines the intersections of typography, publishing, and experimental book culture in Ukraine and across Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is the founder and editor of Lodestar East, a newsletter exploring culture, memory, books, art, and cinema across Eastern Europe. She served as co-chair of the British Association for the Study of Ukraine’s Arts & Culture Working Group.