A Tile Front of a Russian Sanctuary at the Paris Exposition

1900 ◽  
Vol 30 (1build) ◽  
pp. 2-2
Keyword(s):  
Paris Exposition

Power at the Paris Exposition

1899 ◽  
Vol 48 (1233supp) ◽  
pp. 19768-19768
Author(s):  
John T. Bramhall
Keyword(s):  
Paris Exposition

Viktor Vasnetsov’s New Icons

Experiment ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Wendy Salmond
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Late Imperial ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Paris Exposition ◽  
The Many ◽  
Modern Orthodox ◽  
Human Hands

Abstract This essay examines Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov’s search for a new kind of prayer icon in the closing decades of the nineteenth century: a hybrid of icon and painting that would reconcile Russia’s historic contradictions and launch a renaissance of national culture and faith. Beginning with his icons for the Spas nerukotvornyi [Savior Not Made by Human Hands] Church at Abramtsevo in 1880-81, for two decades Vasnetsov was hailed as an innovator, the four icons he sent to the Paris “Exposition Universelle” of 1900 marking the culmination of his vision. After 1900, his religious painting polarized elite Russian society and was bitterly attacked in advanced art circles. Yet Vasnetsov’s new icons were increasingly linked with popular culture and the many copies made of them in the late Imperial period suggest that his hybrid image spoke to a generation seeking a resolution to the dilemma of how modern Orthodox worshippers should pray.

Music at the 1937 Paris Exposition: The Science of Enchantment

2002 ◽  
Vol 143 (1878) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Nigel Simeone
Keyword(s):  
Paris Exposition
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