“…In the bestselling tradition of Too Big to Fail and The Big Short, American Icon is narrative nonfiction at its v..…”

“…She also contextualizes and complements her study of the work of these artists with an examination of the activities of a number of important cultural associations and institutions over the course of several decades. As a result, The Icon and the Square gives a more complete picture of Russian modernism: one that attends to the dialogue between generations of artists, curators, collectors, critics, and theorists.The Icon and the Square retrieves a neglected but vital history that was deliberately suppressed by the atheist Soviet regime and subsequently ignored in favor of the secular formalism of mainstream modernist criticism. …”

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Materias: “…Iconos Líbano…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Finding "living icons" -- St. Seraphim of Sarov : an image of holiness in our time -- Sergius Bulgakov : political economist and priest, Marxist, and mystic -- Maria Skobtsova : woman of many faces, mother in many ways -- Lev Gillet : the monk in the city, a pilgrim in many worlds -- Paul Evdokimov : worldly theologian, man of the church -- Gregory Krug : artist of the icon, theologian of beauty -- Nicolas Afanasiev : explorer of the Eucharist, the church, and life in them -- Alexander Schmemann : teacher of freedom and joy in the world as sacrament -- John Meyendorff : defender of living tradition -- Alexander Men : a modern martyr, free in the faith, open to the world -- Holiness in our time -- Afterword / Kallistos Ware…”