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The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival by Maria Taroutina (review)

Warren, Sarah

Modernism/Modernity, 2021-04, Vol.28 (2), p.385-387 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

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    The Icon and the Square: Russian Modernism and the Russo-Byzantine Revival by Maria Taroutina (review)
  • Autor: Warren, Sarah
  • Assuntos: Aesthetics ; Art, Russian $y19th century ; Avant-garde ; Death & dying ; Europeanization ; History ; Imagery ; Literary devices ; Modernism ; Narratives ; Politics ; Religion ; Taroutina, Maria -- author
  • É parte de: Modernism/Modernity, 2021-04, Vol.28 (2), p.385-387
  • Descrição: Though she relates the importance of Russia's Byzantine roots in establishing the imperial notion of the "Third Rome," and gives evocative examples of the political uses of icons in post-Soviet Russia, the author hardly touches upon the politics of icons within her chosen time period (60). Because of the rigor of Taroutina's scholarship and the strength of her contribution to the field, this blind spot is particularly puzzling. There are a few exceptions to this rule; a discussion of the 1909 essay collection Landmarks (Vekhi) acknowledges the relationship between religious revivalism and the political reform movement before World War I. In addition, Taroutina gives a compelling description of Malevich's disillusionment with the dogmatic conservatism of Soviet artistic life after the death of Lenin. Despite her careful excavation of the concept of the Russo-Byzantine, Taroutina seems unwilling to examine how, for example, attempts to heal the cultural divide between former serfs and the educated classes informed public understanding of icons, or how religious imagery that was inseparable from Russian national self-understanding had symbolic power during a period in which national and religious minorities struggled for self-determination within the Russian Empire.
  • Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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