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TRADITION IN INNOVATION – NEW AND OLD SYMBOLS IN CONTEMPORARY ORTHODOX ICONOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE

J. Uscinowicz

First published: 2017https://doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2017/62/S24.019View metrics

Abstract

Two – thousandth years of history of Christianity proved that a main criterion of a value of church architecture was not based on architectural precursors. This architecture was sacred because it was a carrier of a „truth of God” and – like a liturgical mysterion and iconography art – it was a theological comment. It was a codified language of the transposes of religions essences and orders, into the form of architectural expression. This was in an East Christianity and this happens there up to this day. This paper presents selected examples of interaction between theology, iconography and architecture in contemporary sacred art of the last decade in Poland. It also shows the process of evolution of traditional spatial and functional archetype-symbolical structures and application of new conventions in the Orthodox temples. The effects of design and creation work serve as a basis to classify these objects as traditional.

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Title
TRADITION IN INNOVATION – NEW AND OLD SYMBOLS IN CONTEMPORARY ORTHODOX ICONOGRAPHY AND ARCHITECTURE
Authors
J. Uscinowicz
Proceedings
4th International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts SGEM 2017
Publisher
STEF92 Technology
Year
2017
Pages
159-168
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Uscinowicz201724159168
ISSN
2367-5659
ISBN
978-619-7408-24-9
Language
en
Publication type
Proceedings Paper
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