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Author: Jefferson J. A. Gatrall (SSHRC) ,
Douglas Greenfield (Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.048kg
ISBN: 9780271036779
ISBN 10: 027103677
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 28 October 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Icons can have profound political and social implications, and while the focus of the eleven chapters in this book is on the icon in modernity, there is enough material outlining the icon's journey from medieval to the early modern to be of interest to any scholar of historical trends over the past millennium. . . . As many other reviewers have noted, this book is ground-breaking for its analysis of the traditional as well as innovative role of icons during a period where they were in danger of being eclipsed by the state apparatus. . . . After reading this work icons will never look the same. --John D'Alton, Parergon
<p> Well illustrated and designed, this book is a significant contribution to the study of Russian culture. <p>--W. C. Brumfield, Choice
Icons can have profound political and social implications, and while the focus of the eleven chapters in this book is on the icon in modernity, there is enough material outlining the icon's journey from medieval to the early modern to be of interest to any scholar of historical trends over the past millennium. . . . As many other reviewers have noted, this book is ground-breaking for its analysis of the traditional as well as innovative role of icons during a period where they were in danger of being eclipsed by the state apparatus. . . . After reading this work icons will never look the same. </p>--John D'Alton, <em>Parergon</em></p>
Icons can have profound political and social implications, and while the focus of the eleven chapters in this book is on the icon in modernity, there is enough material outlining the icon's journey from medieval to the early modern to be of interest to any scholar of historical trends over the past millennium. . . . As many other reviewers have noted, this book is ground-breaking for its analysis of the traditional as well as innovative role of icons during a period where they were in danger of being eclipsed by the state apparatus. . . . After reading this work icons will never look the same. --John D'Alton, Parergon Well illustrated and designed, this book is a significant contribution to the study of Russian culture. --W. C. Brumfield, Choice This groundbreaking book will be necessary reading for anyone invested in the icon--not only those concerned with its history in Russia but also those concerned with its widest ramifications in modernisms of the East and West. The essays examine from diverse viewpoints the largely unexplored centrality of the material icon in the imperialist Russian period as well as in the twentieth century. Not a passive object or simple mirror, the icon was an agent in these centuries that worked simultaneously for tradition and the avant-garde, for individual craftsmanship and mass production, for church devotion and museum ideologies, and more. These essays demonstrate not icons' gradual disappearance and displacement, but rather the indispensability of the icon for any understanding of Russian culture, of its conflicting and complicated modernisms. --Glenn Peers, University of Texas This elegant volume, replete with full-color plates and multiple illustrations, demonstrates that far from falling into 'decline, ' 'decay, ' or 'loss' from its encounter with modern aesthetics, the Russian icon continues to serve its 'intermedial, ' 'liminal' function, remaining a phenomenon of the paradoxical 'living tradition' that is Orthodoxy. By definition both material and spiritual, the icon finds a place in museum or poem as well as church, marketplace as well as film. And, as elucidated here, the obraz serves itself up as a subject for scholarly investigation as easily as an object of religious devotion. Kudos to the authors, editors, and publisher. --Judith Deutsch Kornblatt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Author Information
Jefferson J. A. Gatrall is Assistant Professor of Russian at Montclair State University. Douglas Greenfield is Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University.
