Sentences with phrase «nineteenth century icon»

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Besançon first earned his reputation as a historian of Soviet politics and of Russian nationalism (toward both of which he entertains understandably dim views), and he thinks that the Russian nationalists of the nineteenth century, among their other sins, killed the genre of icon «painting when they began to praise the icon's superiority over Western art.

A preview of artistic duo Walter & Zoniel's new series, The Untouched, reviving a nineteenth - century technique known as tintype, reflects this with life - size portraits of British icons displayed in the Stamp Staircase alongside a video of the artists» process.

James Young, in his book At Memory's Edge, describes these changes as «a metamorphosis of the monument from the heroic, self - aggrandizing figurative icons of the late nineteenth century celebrating national ideals and triumphs to the anti-heroic, often ironic, and self - effacing conceptual installations.»

A select collection of Russian icons from the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is also on view.