How long does it take to read The Meaning of Icons?
Léonide Ouspensky, Leonid Ouspensky, Vladimir Lossky
The Meaning of Icons by Léonide Ouspensky, Leonid Ouspensky, Vladimir Lossky takes about 4 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1952. 222 pages, about 61,050 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 47 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"The nature of the icon cannot be grasped by means of pure art criticism, nor by the adoption of a sentimental point of view. Its forms are based on the wisdom contained in the theological and liturgical writings of the Eastern Orthodox Church and are imtimately bound up with the experience of the contemplative life. The present work is the first of its kind to give a reliable introduction to the spiritual background of this art. The introduction into the meaning and language of the icons by Ouspensky imparts to us in an admirable way the spiritual conceptions of the Eastern Orthodox Church which are often so foreign to us, but without the knowledge of which we cannot possibly understand the world of the icon." -- Back cover.
Subjects: Christian art and symbolism, Orthodox Eastern Church, Icons, Russkaia pravoslavnaia tserkov, Christianity and art, Russian Icons
