The Meaning of Icons - Choose Hardback or Paperback - Iconography - Book

Author: Leonid Ouspensky, Vladimir Lossky Size: 9x12 Pages: 222  Choose Hardback or Paperback Includes 160 pages of text with drawings, 13 black and white and 51 full color plates.  In the last decades the art of icons has gained increased attention. Once icons were passed over by the art critics, or at most classified as popular art, although painters such as Matisse or Picasso went to Russia especially for the sake of studying this art. Most recently many books have been published on icon painting. Yet the present work is the first of its kind to give a reliable introduction into the spiritual background of this art. The nature of the icon cannot be grasped by means of pure art criticism, nor by the adoption of a sentimental point of view. Its forms are based on the wisdom contained in the theological and liturgical writings of the Eastern Orthodox Church and are intimately bound up with the experience of contemplative life. This introduction into the meaning and the language of th