The role of the frame in art can refer to a material frame bordering an image and to a conceptual frame ndash; a text; for instance; which is to serve as a commentary to the visual image. What is the meaning of a frame in our understanding of what we see? Why; in some cases; does a frame seem necessary; while in others artists deliberately remove it?In Framing Russian Art; Oleg Tarasov investigates the role of the frame both literally and conceptually; both in the organization of the artistic space of a work of art and in the very perception of a visual image ndash; an icon; a building; a painting; an etching or a photograph. Part One is dedicated to exploring the frame of the Russian icon and related arks; folding images and prints; from the Middle Ages to the late nineteenth century; including analyses of Grigoriy Shumayevrsquo;s vast and extraordinary Baroque masterpiece; which he called lsquo;the iconostasis of the life-giving Crossrsquo;; and the sumptuous blending of medievalism and late Romanticism in the Church Not Made by Hands at Savva Mamontovrsquo;s estate of Abramtsevo outside Moscow. Part Two examines the successive roles of the frame in Baroque imperial portraiture; the dynastic grandiloquence of the nineteenth century; the impact of Western ideas and new technology (photography in particular) on the celebrated battle painter Vasiliy Vereshchagin; and finally the impact of the vanishing frame in abstract art and Modernism.A captivating account of the cultural phenomenon of the frame and its ever-changing functions; this book will open many new vistas for students and scholars of Russian culture and art history.
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