Tarasov's second book -- kovcheg
Alexandra Smith
Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK
Wed May 9 16:42:07 UTC 2012
Dear Allan,
I've read Tarasov's book "Ritorika obramleniia v russkom iskusstve"
(2007) about a year ago or so. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of
it right now. I do remember that in one of the chapters Tarasov talks
about the disappearance of frame per se in Russian 20th-c. art
(including icons produced by modernist artists). It seems that the use
of the word "kovcheg" in a loose way to which you refer occurs in
Tarasov's discussion of some 20th-c. icons, since the notion of
framing was abandoned altogether.
I note that in one of the chapters from Tarasov's 2007 book (available
on the internet) Tarasov refers to the notion of "kovcheg" (ark) in a
traditional sense, too. He writes about one 18th-c. icon thus:
"В следующем столетии линейная перспектива и картинная рама
окончательно утверждают свои позиции в русском церковном искусстве. В
житийной иконе святой Варвары (вторая половина XVIII века, ГИМ)
средневековый ковчег исчез, а иконные поля превратились в тонкую
живописную рамку — линейная перспектива и новая риторика образа
заставили мастера пересмотреть концепцию рамы изображения."
See this page:
http://www.icon-art.info/book_contents.php?lng=ru&book_id=93&chap=6
Perhaps, you could tell us more about the passage of the book you have
in mind? It would be useful to see it in order to understand why the
word kovcheg is used in a different way.
All best,
Alexandra
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