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Icons

Worship and Adoration
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Icons explores the concept of the icon from its roots in cultic worship to its resonance in contemporary art and popular culture. The book presents masterpieces spanning from Russian icons to works by Caspar David Friedrich, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol among others, examining their spiritual presence and transcendental qualities. It also includes everyday icons from brands and pop culture, offering a rich dialogue between traditional spiritual art and modern visual phenomena.
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This volume is ideal for readers interested in art, spirituality, cultural studies, and the history and significance of visual symbols in both historical and modern contexts.

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When considering the term icon, how can the idea of cultic worship be connected with the concept of the transcendental today? The qualities of the traditional icon continue to have an effect, particularly in the spiritual presence and auratic power of many modern and contemporary artworks. This volume presents masterpieces which express aspects of spirituality and reverence in a variety of individual ways.

The works extend from Russian icons via Caspar David Friedrich, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko and Yves Klein to Andy Warhol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Isa Genzken and Andreas Gursky.

Everyday icons from the world of brands and pop culture complete the range of images. The choice of works and the essays by selected authors contrast the interpretation of the traditional concept of the icon in art with the phenomenon of the creation of icons in our day-to-day environment. The publication aims to demonstrate the spiritual power of art and invites the reader to contemplation.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777433967

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 09 January 2020

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 1120g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Christoph Grunenberg is the director of the Kunsthalle Bremen Museum in Bremen, Germany. His previous publications are Last Year in Marienbad: A Film as Art and Picasso and the Model: Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette. Eva Fischer-Hausdorfer is the curator of modern and contemporary art at Kunsthalle Bremen.

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