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Author : Andrew Jenks
Release : 2004
Genre : Art, Russian
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Book Synopsis Iconography, Power, and Expertise in Imperial Russia by : Andrew Jenks
Download or read book Iconography, Power, and Expertise in Imperial Russia written by Andrew Jenks. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oleg Tarasov
Release : 2004-01-03
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Icon and Devotion by : Oleg Tarasov
Download or read book Icon and Devotion written by Oleg Tarasov. This book was released on 2004-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Icon and Devotion offers the first extensive presentation in English of the making and meaning of Russian icons. The craft of icon-making is set into the context of forms of worship that emerged in the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid-seventeenth century. Oleg Tarasov shows how icons have held a special place in Russian consciousness because they represented idealized images of Holy Russia. He also looks closely at how and why icons were made. Wonder-working saints and the leaders of such religious schisms as the Old Believers appear in these pages, which are illustrated in halftones with miniature paintings, lithographs and engravings never before published in the English-speaking world. By tracing the artistic vocabulary, techniques and working methods of icon painters, Tarasov shows how icons have been integral to the history of Russian art, influenced by folk and mainstream currents alike. As well as articulating the specifically Russian piety they invoke, he analyzes the significance of icons in the cultural life of modern Russia in the context of popular prints and poster design.
Author : Jan Morsink Ikonen (Firm)
Release : 2006
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Power of Icons by : Jan Morsink Ikonen (Firm)
Download or read book The Power of Icons written by Jan Morsink Ikonen (Firm). This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This illustrated book presents a collection of unique icons not usually seen outside the confines of the living room. A collection assembled by the brothers Simon and Hugo Morsink, both passionate icon lovers and art dealers. Accompanying texts, to which international experts have contributed, explain the meaning of these Greek and Russian icons, dating from the 15th to the 19th century, while several essays take the reader inside the world of this ancient Christian art form."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ekaterina Pravilova
Release : 2018-05-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 717/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Public Empire by : Ekaterina Pravilova
Download or read book A Public Empire written by Ekaterina Pravilova. This book was released on 2018-05-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Property rights" and "Russia" do not usually belong in the same sentence. Rather, our general image of the nation is of insecurity of private ownership and defenselessness in the face of the state. Many scholars have attributed Russia's long-term development problems to a failure to advance property rights for the modern age and blamed Russian intellectuals for their indifference to the issues of ownership. A Public Empire refutes this widely shared conventional wisdom and analyzes the emergence of Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. Most importantly, A Public Empire shows the emergence of the new practices of owning "public things" in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good. The book analyzes how the belief that certain objects—rivers, forests, minerals, historical monuments, icons, and Russian literary classics—should accede to some kind of public status developed in Russia in the mid-nineteenth century. Professional experts and liberal politicians advocated for a property reform that aimed at exempting public things from private ownership, while the tsars and the imperial government employed the rhetoric of protecting the sanctity of private property and resisted attempts at its limitation. Exploring the Russian ways of thinking about property, A Public Empire looks at problems of state reform and the formation of civil society, which, as the book argues, should be rethought as a process of constructing "the public" through the reform of property rights.
Author : Lyudmila Milyayeva
Release : 2014
Genre : Art, Byzantine
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Book Rating : 851/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Icons by : Lyudmila Milyayeva
Download or read book Icons written by Lyudmila Milyayeva. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the evolution of iconic art from its beginning in Byzantium to the time of the Russian Empire. Icons are a fundamental element in the history of art, and it is therefore crucial to understand how this form of expression began and how it developed over centuries. Icons are discussed by one of the world-renowned experts on early Christian iconography, offering a valuable point of reference for specialists, as well as students.
