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Alter Icons: The Russian Icon and Modernity (Studies of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University) [Hardcover] Gatrall, Jefferson J. A. and Greenfield, Douglas

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Passage into the modern world left the Russian icon profoundly altered. It fell into new hands, migrated to new homes, and acquired new forms and meanings. Icons were made in the factories of foreign industrialists and destroyed by iconoclasts of the proletariat. Even the icon&;s traditional functions&;whether in the feast days of the church or the pageantry of state power&;were susceptible to the transformative forces of modernization. In

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