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The icon and the square : Russian modernism and the Russo-Byzantine revival /

"Charts the rediscovery and rigorous reassessment of the medieval Russo-Byzantine artistic tradition in Russia in the years 1860-1920. Explores the link between Byzantine revivalism and modernist experimentation, which ultimately made a significant and lasting impact on twentieth-century avant-...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taroutina, Maria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2018]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Byzantium reconsidered : revivalism, avant-gardism and the new art criticism
  • From Constantinople to Moscow and St. Petersburg : museums, exhibitions and private collections
  • Angels becoming demons : Mikhail Vrubel's modernist beginnings
  • Vasily Kandinsky's iconic subconscious and the search for the spiritual in art
  • Towards a new icon : Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin and the cult of non-objectivity.