{"product_id":"ikona-the-modernist-invention-of-the-icon-in-the-russian-art-world-1900s-1920s","title":"IKONA - The Modernist Invention of the Icon in the Russian Art World, 1900s-1920s","description":"\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","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57503700975989,"sku":"9781350574953","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/ikona-the-modernist-invention-of-the-icon-in-the-russian-art-world-1900s-1920s","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}