Icon and devotion : sacred spaces in Imperial Russia

Icon and devotion : sacred spaces in Imperial Russia / Oleg Tarasov ; translated and edited by Robin Milner-Gulland.

By tracing the artistic vocabulary, techniques and working methods of icon painters in the last 400 years, Tarasov shows how icons have been integral to the history of Russian art, influenced by folk traditions and Western European currents alike.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tarasov, O. I︠U︡. (Oleg I︠U︡rʹevich)
Other Authors: Milner-Gulland, R. R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: London : Reaktion Books, 2002.
Subjects:
Orthodox Eastern Church > In art.
Orthodox Eastern Church.
Icon painting > Russia.
Icons, Russian.
Icon painting.
Iconen (schilderkunst)
Russia.
In art.
works of art.
Art.
Uniform Title:Ikona i blagochestie.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Robin Milner-Gulland
  • The Icon and the World
  • Venerated Image: The Sacred in the Everyday
  • The Burden of Numbers
  • The Details of Ritual
  • Miracles
  • Dispute about Signs, Dispute about Faith
  • The Ambivalence of Symbols
  • The Complications of Renaming: A Tract Concerning the New Devotion
  • In a World without Grace
  • The Shadow of Antichrist
  • The Sacralization of the Icon Painter
  • The Theology of the People
  • The Icon and Popular Culture
  • East and West
  • Face and Countenance
  • Landscape
  • Word, Emblem, Heraldry
  • The Portrait Icon
  • The Middle Ages Delayed
  • Concealed Montage
  • Myth and Mystification: Self-awareness in the Icon-painting Experience
  • Icons and Popular Art
  • The Aesthetics of Sensibility
  • The Spirit of Religious Tradition
  • The Projection of Signs: Icon, Lubok, the Avant-garde.

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