The principle of reverse perspective in P. Florensky's theory and its relation to the scientific picture of the world of his time Cover Image
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Принцип обратной перспективы в теории П. Флоренского и ее отношение к научной картине мира его времени
The principle of reverse perspective in P. Florensky's theory and its relation to the scientific picture of the world of his time

Author(s): Bogdán Zaválnij
Subject(s): Cultural history, Aesthetics, 19th Century, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Florenskij; icon; theory of relativity; modernism; reversed perspective;

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of our paper is to emphasize how the changes in the scientific views and the philosophy of nature influenced the modernist movements in arts at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. In the science of this period basic changes happen, which Pavel Florenskij includes in his theological and art-theoretical works about icon interpretation. This interpretation explains the special time and space understanding of the icons. The spatial problem of the icons Florenskij solves by introducing a new theory of reversed perspective. In our paper we intend to show how Florenskij with his icon interpretation could/should be regarded as a direct connector between the new scientific views and the artistic conceptions of the turn of the 19th–20th centuries.

  • Issue Year: 51/2006
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 243-250
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian