Husar, Natalka; Janice Kulyk Keefer; Iryna Pasichnyk (Illustrator) — Burden of Innocence | Foreign Relations [SIGNED]

Kyïv, Ukraine Rodovid Press First Edition, First Printing pp. 103; 93. Square 4to., measuring 23 x 25 cm. Padded pictorial boards; two volumes beautifully bound in one. Richly illustrated in colour throughout. Text in English and Ukrainian. No detectable flaws: contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding. Near fine. Uncommon in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #499154688. SIGNED by the author(s) to the title page. Burden of Innocence is the project of a Canadian Ukrainian, the painter Natalka Husar, who has made a name for herself in her field in both Canada and abroad. Here Husar's visual work is presented with her own commentary on what she sees as the social ills and goods in contemporary Ukraine: the subject matter is post-Orange Revolution Ukraine and our continually shifting, always-problematic but utterly abiding relationship with our parents' homeland and the homeland of our imaginations. Burden of Innocence is a bridge between various worlds: Canada and Ukraine, painting and writing, and verbal and visual images.