{"product_id":"the-icon-and-the-square-9780271081045","title":"The Icon and the Square","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharts 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-garde movements. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Well written and richly illustrated, it gives a comprehensive sense of the way in which the Byzantine ground of Russian national identity was laid throughout the nineteenth century, without which some of the most influential manifestations of world modernism could never have flowered the way they did.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Andrew Spira \u003ci\u003eBurlington Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Maria Taroutina’s beautifully illustrated and informative book demonstrates convincingly that the story is much more multifarious and complicated than has so far been shown.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Per-Anne Bodin \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In her lavishly illustrated book, Taroutina revises the time period during which art historians generally locate the origins of modernism in Russian art from the beginning of the twentieth century to the closing decades of the nineteenth.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Maria Lipman \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In the 1909 essay ‘New Paths in Art,’ artist and writer Léon Bakst observed that Russian art could move forward only by turning back to the aesthetics of antiquity, national folklore, and even prehistory. In her audacious analysis, Maria Taroutina places luminaries of both Symbolism and the avant-garde, such as Goncharova, Malevich, Tatlin, and Vrubel, in a wide temporal framework and persuasively establishes a harmonious correlation between their radical stance and bygone cultures.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—John E. Bowlt,editor of \u003ci\u003eRussian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism, 1902-1934\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This remarkable account tackles longstanding and resilient binaries to reveal ways in which some of the most innovative members of Russia's avant-garde willingly engaged with the cultural and political establishment and deployed medieval visual practice to galvanize modernist discourse in highly unexpected and suggestive ways.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Rosalind Polly Blakesley,author of \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia, 1757-1881\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Brilliantly complicates and expands our largely secular, future-oriented understanding of Russian modernism by revealing the myriad affinities that bound avant-garde artists and critics to the values of the Russo-Byzantine revival. The historiographic questions raised in this paradigm-shifting study are central to the emerging field of global modernist studies, while those interested in medieval culture and its modern revivals will find much to stimulate new thinking.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Wendy Salmond,author of \u003ci\u003eKonstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nowhere was modernist experimentation with new forms more dramatic and radical than in Russia. Maria Taroutina demonstrates how the reach toward abstraction was deeply connected with a search for the “spiritual in art.” The pioneering artists in this study found stimuli in medieval icons, mosaics, and frescoes; at the same time, official efforts to promote national culture focused on these Russo-Byzantine sources. Extensively documented, this book offers insights into both conservative and modernist motivations, activities, and ideas that made up the densely woven tapestry of Russian modernism.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Alison Hilton,author of \u003ci\u003eRussian Folk Art\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Icon and the Square\u003c\/i\u003e paves the way for further study by laying a solid methodological groundwork that invites further analysis of its core themes.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Kamila Kocialkowska \u003ci\u003eH-SHERA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgmentsNote on Transliteration, Translation, and DatesIntroduction1. Byzantium Reconsidered: Revivalism, Avant-Gardism, and the New Art Criticism2. From Constantinople to Moscow and St. Petersburg: Museums, Exhibitions, and Private Collections3. Angels Becoming Demons: Mikhail Vrubel’s Modernist Beginnings4. Vasily Kandinsky’s Iconic Subconscious and the Search for the Spiritual in Art5. Toward a New Icon: Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, and the Cult of NonobjectivityEpilogueNotesSelected BibliographyIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400800379223,"sku":"9780271081045","price":70.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-icon-and-the-square-9780271081045","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}