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Why do people attack monuments and other public objects charged with authority by the societies that produced them? What

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Anne McClanan
Jeffrey Johnson
Jeff Johnson

Table of contents :
Introduction: 'O for a muse of fire ... ' / Anne McClanan, Jeff johnson --
Refiguring iconoclasm in the early Indian mosque / Finbarr B. Flood --
The war against idols: the meanings of iconoclasm in revolutionary Mexico, 1910-40 / Adrian A. Bantjes --
Fallen idols and risen saints: western attitudes towards the worship of images and the 'cultura veterum deorum' / Beate Fricke --
Seeing is believing but words tell no lies: captions versus images in the Libri Carolini and Byzantine iconoclasm / Liz James --
Naming names and shifting identities in ancient Egyptian iconoclasm / Penelope Wilson --
Supplanting the devotional image after Netherlandish iconoclasm / Mia M. Mochizuki --
Preservation and destruction, oblivion and memory / Dario Gamboni.
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