Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art - Couverture rigide

Florensky, Pavel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 186189130X ISBN 13 : 9781861891303

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2002

Synopsis

Beyond Vision is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882-1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician – and art historian. In addition to seven essays by Florensky, the book includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky’s contribution as an art historian by Nicoletta Misler. Beyond Vision reveals Florensky’s fundamental attitudes to the vital questions of construction, composition, chronology, function and destination in the fields of painting, sculpture and design. His reputation as a theologian and philosopher is already established in the English-speaking world, but this first collection in English of his art essays (translated by Wendy Salmond) will be a revelation to those in the field.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Pavel Florensky was a true polymath: trained in mathematics and philosophy at Moscow University, he was also an expert linguist, scientist and art historian. A victim of the Soviet government’s animosity towards religion, he was condemned to a Siberian labour camp in 1933 where he continued his work under increasingly difficult circumstances. He was executed in 1937.

Nicoletta Misler is Professor in the Department of Eastern European Studies at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples.

Wendy Salmond is Head of the Art History program at Chapman University, Orange, California.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 186189130X
• ISBN 13: 9781861891303
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Misler Nicoletta
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• Personne responsable: non disponible