Title: The icon in Canada
First published: 1996
Description: Separated from its origins in the Old World, Eastern Christian iconography in Canada has come to enjoy a popular following from coast to coast. The present volume documents this living tradition from a variety of perspectives to offer the first national survey of its kind. Here folklorists join with art historians, anthropologists, a scientist, a theologian, enthusiasts and iconographers to underscore the richness of a phenomenon that continues to captivate large segments of the country's population.
Subjects: Icon painters, Biography, Icons, Iconen (schilderkunst), Icônes, Peintres d'icônes, Icônes byzantines, Byzantine Icons
Places: Canada
LC classification: N8189.C2 K68 1996