Description: A book that argues that ikona, the Russian word for 'icon', is a modernist concept invented by Russian avant-garde artists and art critics at the turn of the 20th century.
Brief description: Clemena Antonova is Research Director of the 'World in Pieces' Programme at the Institute for Human Sciences, Austria. She is the author of Visual Thought in Russian Religious Philosophy: Pavel Florensky's Theory of the Icon (2020) and Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon. Seeing the World with the Eyes of God (2010).