ikon

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A sculpture like Saint Sebastian, 1957-58, its bronze skin crusted with the shapes of reclaimed junk that Paolozzi had incorporated into the mold, balances neatly between golem and ikon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since then the artist's famed picture of his mother has become such a Mother's Day ikon* that a separate study of the Woman Behind the Painting became inevitable.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia.

From Time Magazine Archive

The American delegation said he was not invited, tried to send him home, thawed out grudgingly when the Russians decided to make a "black ikon" of him.

From Time Magazine Archive

The shadow of his sister would kneel down and pray; she would bow to the ikon, and her grey shadow on the wall would bow, too, so that two shadows prayed to God.

From The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories by Cannan, Gilbert