Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images [Hardcover ed.] 0773557369, 9780773557369

Iconoclasm – the alteration, destruction, or displacement of icons – is usually considered taboo or profane. But, on occ

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Iconoclasm: The Breaking and Making of Images [Hardcover ed.]
0773557369, 9780773557369

Iconoclasm ? the alteration, destruction, or displacement of icons ? is usually considered taboo or profane. But, on occ

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Case studies that investigate the paradoxical nature of iconoclasm, when destroying icons only enhances their iconicity.

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In eighth- and ninth-century Byzantium there arose a heated controversy over religious art, known as the "Iconoclas

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In Elizabethan England, dramatists and painters were both achieving the greatest degree of artistic excellence yet witne

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From false idols and graven images to the tombs of kings and the shrines of capitalism, the targeted destruction of citi

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Between the sixth and eighth centuries CE, the image emerged as a rhetorical category in religious literature produced i

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This is a practical handbook on how to make your own codes and how to “break” other peoples’ codes. You’ll find enough t

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