{"product_id":"russian-icons-the-oleg-kushnirskiy-collection-9781858947242","title":"Russian Icons: The Oleg Kushnirskiy Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautifully and lavishly illustrated book on an important private collection of late Russian icons written by distinguished art historians. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe artistic quality and historical significance of Russian icons - religious paintings of characters and scenes from the Eastern Orthodox Bible - have been of a consistently high order ever since they first emerged in that country in the eleventh century CE. Less constant, however, have been the care with which these works have been treated and their commercial value. Russian icons were at various times encouraged, then vandalized, then exported, then banned from export; during the worst privations under the Tsars and the Bolsheviks, people felt forced to use them as bartering counters and even sometimes as firewood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the collapse of Communism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Oleg Kushnirskiy (born 1960) came to the West and set about assembling a collection of Russian icons in the United States, where they would be well protected from physical decay and safe from further religious and political upheavals. Acquired from a variety of sources - ecclesiastical, civic, and domestic - the Kushnirskiy Collection is now stored in New York and exhibited periodically in universities, galleries, and museums in numerous locations, thus fulfilling the collector's ambition to bring these masterpieces to a wider audience than ever before. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis complete catalog features sixty works, the oldest created in the mid-seventeenth century, the most recent in the early twentieth. Accompanying the images are insightful analytical commentaries by distinguished art historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA clear conspectus of 300 years of Russian religious art\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeautifully illustrated throughout with over 400 photographs of complete icons and details\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReadable text that explains the artistic processes and the historical context\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIvannikova, Anna:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAnna Ivannikova\u003c\/b\u003e graduated from St. Petersburg State University in 2006. She began her career at the State Russian Museum's Department of Old Russian Art, where she worked from 2002 to 2007. From 2007 until 2017, she contributed significantly to the conceptual development and acquisition of collections at the Museum of Russian Icons in Moscow. Since 2017, she has curated late icon painting at the State Hermitage Museum's Department of History of Russian Culture. She is also a certified expert of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDr Antonova, Clemena:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Clemena Antonova\u003c\/b\u003e received her Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. She has held research positions at various institutions, most recently CAPAS, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Aix-Marseille, and the University of Cologne. Currently, she is the Research Director of \u003ci\u003eThe World in Pieces \u003c\/i\u003eprogram at the Insititute for Human Sciences in Vienna, Austria. She is working on her third monograph, \u003ci\u003eIKONA: The Modernist Invention of the Russian Icon\u003c\/i\u003e, to be published by Bloomsbury. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDr Epstein, Alek D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDr. Alek D. Epstein\u003c\/b\u003e is a sociologist of culture and politics and has written over 200 academic articles and 40 books. He received his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2001). His professional experience includes teaching at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Open University of Israel, Moscow Lomonosov State University, and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. 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