{"product_id":"9781350574953","title":"IKONA - The Modernist Invention of the Icon in the Russian Art World, 1900s-1920s","description":"\u003ch3\u003eRussian Shorts\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eIKONA - The Modernist Invention of the Icon in the Russian Art World, 1900s-1920s\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eClemena Antonova | Stephen M. Norris | Polly Jones\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Russia \u0026amp; the Former Soviet Union\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book argues that \u003ci\u003eikona,\u003c\/i\u003e the Russian word for 'icon', is a modernist concept invented by Russian avant-garde artists and art critics at the turn of the 20th century. \u003c\/b\u003eClemena Antonova argues that the very notion of \u003ci\u003eikona \u003c\/i\u003eis modernist in the sense that it grew naturally out of the evolution of Russian avant-garde art and art criticism. Quite literally then, the Russian icon was not 'discovered' at the beginning of the 20th century, as we are often told; it was \u003ci\u003einvented\u003c\/i\u003e. Further, this invention was not the work of backward-looking, religious mystics and Orthodox conservatives – an all too frequent implication – but, as Antonova convincingly contends, the creation of some of the most trailblazing figures among the avant-garde and circles associated with the avant-garde.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIKONA - The Modernist Invention of the Icon in the Russian Art World, 1900s-1920s\u003c\/i\u003e casts a fresh look at the much misunderstood idea of the Russian icon. Rather than accepting the conventional view that the icon is a remnant of medieval art which continues to cast its spell over modern image-making, it approaches \u003ci\u003eikona \u003c\/i\u003eas a concept that was developed at the crossroad of ideas that were central to the emergence of Russian modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eClemena Antonova \u003c\/b\u003eis Research Director of the 'World in Pieces' Programme at the Institute for Human Sciences, Austria. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eVisual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon \u003c\/i\u003e(2020) and \u003ci\u003eSpace, Time, and Presence in the Icon. Seeing the World with the Eyes of God \u003c\/i\u003e(2010).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e08 July 2027\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350574953\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e144\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53099408621708,"sku":"9781350574953","price":54.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350574953","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}