The Avant-garde Icon: Russian Avant-garde Art and the Icon Painting Tradition

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Lund Humphries, 2008 - Art - 224 pages
This unusual treatment of the Russian avant-garde offers original insights into the broad and complex unfolding of Russian art up to the 1950s. Beginning with an account of the movement's origins in about 1870, and concluding with the death of Stalin, Andrew Spira demonstrates how icons underpin the development of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russian art. The Avant-Garde Icon throws a new light on the deeper meaning and significance of icons. It adds to art-historical debates around early twentieth-century art, whilst also catering to those who have a general interest in icons and in the stunning images produced in Russia throughout this tumultuous period.

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Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
7
THE ICONIC TECHNIQUES
103
IMAGERY Iconography
133
Copyright

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About the author (2008)

Andrew Spira is Course Director at Christie's Education. He previously worked as a curator in the metalwork department of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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