Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art - 8. Ellis H. Minns and Nikodim Kondakov's The Russian Icon (1927) - Open Book Publishers

In March 1922, Byzantine scholar and academician Nikodim Kondakov (1844–1925) arrived in Prague, an elderly, penniless émigré with little more in his suitcase than a massive book manuscript and a photo archive (fig. 8.1). Kondakov intended his book to be the definitive work on the Russian icon, his gift to the Russian people in a time of iconoclasm, when an entire culture of shared spiritual values seemed under threat.2 It was the fruit, not simply of decades of laborious scholarly research

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Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art - 8. Ellis H. Minns and Nikodim Kondakov's The Russian Icon (1927) - Open Book Publishers

Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art - 7. 'Russian Messiah': On the Spiritual in the Reception of Vasily Kandinsky's Art in Germany, c. 1910–1937 - Open Book Publishers