Under the endless sky. Images of the universe in Russian art

The book of the Russian and French culturologist Valery Baydin is a study unique in terms of coverage and wealth of material on Russian artistic cosmism. The author traces the development of the images of the universe in art from archaeological monuments of the Eastern Slavs to the late Soviet underground. The hermeneutics method, based on the connection of the word, religious rite and plastic form, helps to reveal the forgotten meaning of the ancient Russian “sacred signs", and in a new way to explain the sacred symbolism of the medieval temple. The book tells of the "iconosphere of the" times of Andrei Rublev and Dionysius, about the search for the "universal response" in the Russian landscape of the era of romanticism and symbolism, about the utopia of the "reorganization of the world" and the course of the artistic prognostism in the art of the avant -garde, about the "planetary" aesthetics of the provenger. and "cosmic metaphysics" of reformist artists.
A book written in a free essay manner is addressed to culturalists, art critics and everyone who is interested in the history of Russian culture