The Icon: Truth and Fables

This book by professional art historian, iconographer, and icon painting teacher Irina Gorbunova-­Lomax, first published in Russia, offers a pene-trating critique of the discourse on icons and icon painting as developed in Russian émigré circles in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century.

Deconstructing the myths and fables which have grown up around icon painting, and attacking malpractice in its teaching, its author suggests ways out of the sterile impasse in which icon painting in Europe currently finds itself.