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Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art

By Pavel Florensky

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
186189130X, 9781861891303, 1861893078, 9781861893079
Open Library ID
OL17078022M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (14091738 bytes)
Pages
322\322
Topic
Art
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Искусство и искусствоведение;История искусств

Description

Beyond Vision is the first English-language collection of essays on art by the Russian polymath Pavel Florensky (1882_1937), with two introductory essays by the editor and an extensive bibliography. Florensky_s reputation as a theologian and philosopher is already established in the English-speaking world. This first collection in English of his art essays will be a revelation to those in the field.Pavel Florensky, a brilliant writer, mathematician, theologian, scientist, and art historian was condemned to a Siberian labor camp in 1933, and executed four years later. 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.

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