Recovering the Icon: The Life and Works of Leonid Ouspensky by Patrick Doolan - 2008-07-01

St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, March 2008. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. It's a tall, thin hardcover with a simple yet elegant cover and contents, and we could sum up the message concisely: iconography is a living act, a living Tradition passed through the vermilion hand and azure soul of the icon-writer. The whole Church, from its catacomb days in antiquity to its catacomb days in the modern era, has been thinking, praying and speaking in this language, this charismatic language of icons. Between the short, inspiring biography introducing the book and its elegant closing memoir, <i>Recovering the Icon</i> reproduces and explains 100 icons -- painted, carved or pressed in silver -- by the hand of a modern master. The focus is the master himself, Russian émigré in Paris, Leonid Ouspensky. We offer other books, such as <i> Icons and Saints</i> and Ouspensky's <i>Theology of the Icon</i>, which detail the history of icons and their… Read More

Crestwood Tuckahoe, New York, U.S.A.: St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2008. Book. New. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Crestwood Tuckahoe, NY, St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2008. Folio. Harcover, 104 pp. Brand new book..

Crestwood Tuckahoe, New York, U.S.A.: St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 2008. Book. New. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Crestwood Tuckahoe, NY, St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2008. Folio. Harcover, 104 pp. Brand new book..

St Vladimirs Seminary Pr, 2008-03-15. Hardcover. Used: Good.

St. Vladimirs Seminary Press, March 2008. Hardcover. New. It's a tall, thin hardcover with a simple yet elegant cover and contents, and we could sum up the message concisely: iconography is a living act, a living Tradition passed through the vermilion hand and azure soul of the icon-writer. The whole Church, from its catacomb days in antiquity to its catacomb days in the modern era, has been thinking, praying and speaking in this language, this charismatic language of icons. Between the short, inspiring biography introducing the book and its elegant closing memoir, <i>Recovering the Icon</i> reproduces and explains 100 icons -- painted, carved or pressed in silver -- by the hand of a modern master. The focus is the master himself, Russian émigré in Paris, Leonid Ouspensky. We offer other books, such as <i> Icons and Saints</i> and Ouspensky's <i>Theology of the Icon</i>, which detail the history of icons and their place in the… Read More

St Vladimirs Seminary Pr, 2008. Hardcover. New. 104 pages. 12.00x9.25x0.75 inches.

St Vladimirs Seminary Pr, 2008. Hardcover. New. 104 pages. 12.00x9.25x0.75 inches.