About the book: year / The article "Icon and Art" published below was written by Uspensky in 1983, commissioned by the American encyclopedia "Christian Spirituality" and published in 1985 in New York in English in the XVI volume of the “World Spirituality” series. In the published article, as in his other works, the author proceeds from a deeply ecclesiastical understanding of the Orthodox icon as “literally liturgical art,” as an expression of Christian Revelation in the Church, along with with Scripture and Patristic Tradition. The text is published from the Russian-language typewritten original stored in the archives of L. A. Uspensky. Published: ZhMP, 2002, № 8