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 idealised 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 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 analszes the significance of icons in the cultural life of modern Russia in the context of popular prints and poster design.
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