Мистецьке товариство «Шлях» як каталізатор культурно-мистецьких процесів Львова 1980 – 1990-х рр

This paper conducts a comprehensive study and analysis of  the first post-Soviet non-conformist Artistic Union «Shlyakh», that launched its activities in Ukraine on the verge of 1980-1990's. The author found historical-political, socio-cultural and artistic preconditions of uprise, functioning and actual demise of the fellowship. There has been made analyzes of artists-members’ creativity, free of remnants of socialist realism, in particular, their post-modernist play with form, color, space and time. The paper revealed that innovative experiments and creative searchings of «Shlyakh» members significantly influenced the ideological-conceptual and artistic-stylistic features of contemporary Lviv art. We considered also social activities of the Union and found out that organization of auctions and exhibitions, support of dissident artists, advertising and poligraphic work, conducted by «Shlyakh», carried catalytic effect on the formation of a new cultural and artistic environment.