The human relationship to space and transcendence in icons and paintings

Abstract

The chapter explores Ouspensky's, Florensky's and Evdokimov's notions of an icon. With the help of contemporary Orthodox theologians such as Kattan and Schneider, it challenges the confrontational attitude towards Western art and shows how it also thematises relations to space and to transcendence.

Keywords

• Icon
• Symbol
• Western Art
• Leonid Ouspensky
• Paul Florensky
• Paul Evdokimov