{"product_id":"9781861893079","title":"Beyond Vision: Essays on the Perception of Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond Vision\u003c\/i\u003e is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician – and art historian. In addition to seven essays by Florensky, the book includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky’s contribution as an art historian by Nicoletta Misler. \u003ci\u003eBeyond Vision\u003c\/i\u003e reveals Florensky’s fundamental attitudes to the vital questions of construction, composition, chronology, function and destination in the fields of painting, sculpture and design. His reputation as a theologian and philosopher is already established in the English-speaking world, but this first collection in English of his art essays (translated by Wendy Salmond) will be a revelation to those in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePavel Florensky was a true polymath: trained in mathematics and philosophy at Moscow University, he rejected a scholarship in advanced mathematics in order to study theology at the Moscow Theological Academy. He was also an expert linguist, scientist and art historian. A victim of the Soviet government’s animosity towards religion, he was condemned to a Siberian labor camp in 1933 where he continued his work under increasingly difficult circumstances. He was executed in 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039472959728,"sku":"9781861893079","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781861893079_p0.jpg?v=1763600950","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781861893079","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}