Acknowledgements

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Notes on Transliteration and Conventions

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Notes on Contributors

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1.

Introduction: Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art

Louise Hardiman and Nicola Kozicharow

9

2.

From Angels to Demons: Mikhail Vrubel and the Search for a Modernist Idiom

Maria Taroutina

37

3.

‘The Loving Labourer through Space and Time’: Aleksandra Pogosskaia, Theosophy, and Russian Arts and Crafts, c. 1900–1917

Louise Hardiman

69

4.

Kazimir Malevich, Symbolism, and Ecclesiastic Orthodoxy

Myroslava M. Mudrak

91

5.

Spirituality and the Semiotics of Russian Culture: From the Icon to Avant-Garde Art

Oleg Tarasov

115

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Re-imagining the Old Faith: Larionov, Goncharova, and the Spiritual Traditions of Old Believers

Nina Gurianova

129

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‘Russian Messiah’: On the Spiritual in the Reception of Vasily Kandinsky’s Art in Germany, c. 1910–1937

Sebastian Borkhardt

149

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Ellis H. Minns and Nikodim Kondakov’s The Russian Icon (1927)

Wendy Salmond

165

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Stelletsky’s Murals at Saint-Serge: Orthodoxy and the Neo-Russian Style in Emigration

Nicola Kozicharow

195

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The Role of the ‘Red Commissar’ Nikolai Punin in the Rediscovery of Icons

Natalia Murray

213

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Ucha Japaridze, Lado Gudiashvili, and the Spiritual in Painting in Soviet Georgia

Jennifer Brewin

229

Select Bibliography

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Illustrations

289

Index

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