Ikonen und die Moderne: Icons and Modern Art
Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2005. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with blue and color illustrated dust jacket, 118 pp, richly illustrated in color. As new in shrinkwrap. Item #175497
ISBN: 9783795416805
Text in German and English. "This volume demonstrates how profound a visual influence icons had on modern Western art. Twenty comparisons show how artists of the classical modern period and of the present day took up and varied formal elements of icon painting. The apparent contradiction between the work of Wester art, created by the subjective hand of a known artist, and the religious image of the Eastern Orthodox Church, not created by human hand reveals itself as a superficial one. Commen elements are illustrted by reference to paintings by Kandinsky or Klee, by Mondrian, Tapies, Giacometti, Arnulf Rainer or Anselm Kiefer." - dust jacket.
OCLC: 57540998
Price: $80.00