Iconoclasm

Contested Objects, Contested Terms
Herausgeber: Boldrick, Stacy; Clay, Richard

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The word 'iconoclasm' is most often used in relation to sculpture, because it is sculptures that most visibly bear witness to physical damage. But damage can also be invisible, and the actions of iconoclasm can be subtle and varying. Iconoclastic acts include the addition of objects and accessories, as well as their removal, or may be represented in text or imagery that never materially affects the original object. This book brings together a collection of essays each of which fundamentally questions the meaning of the word iconoclasm as a descriptive category. Each contribution examines the impact of iconoclastic acts on different representational forms, and assesses the development and historical implications of these various destructive and transformative behaviours.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780754654216
• ISBN-10: 0754654214
• Artikelnr.: 42347444

Autorenporträt

Dr Stacy Boldrick is VARIE Administrator at the Department of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh, UK. Dr Richard Clay is Research Fellow at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Stacy Boldrick and Richard Clay; What does
iconoclasm create? what does preservation destroy? reflections on
iconoclasm in East Asia, Fabio Rambelli and Eric Reinders; Attacks on
automata and eviscerated sculptures, Aura Satz; Iconoclasm and consumption:
or, household management according to Thomas Cromwell, Matthew Hunter;
Iconoclasm, the commodity, and the art of painting, Charles Ford;
Bouchardon's statue of Louis XV: iconoclasm and the transformation of
signs, Richard Clay; 'Wyatt the destroyer': a vandal at Salisbury
Cathedral?, Alexandrina Buchanan; Clastic icons: prints taken from broken
or reassembled blocks in some 'popular prints' of the Western tradition,
Tom Gretton; Making sense of iconoclasm: popular responses to the
destruction of religious images in revolutionary Mexico, Adrian Bantjes;
Surrealism in the Bronze Age: statuephobia and the efficacy of metaphorical
iconoclasm, Simon Baker; Sturm auf das stadtbild: on the treatment of
Wilhelminian architectural decoration in the 20th century, Hans Georg
Hiller von Gaertringen; 'Idols in stone' or empty pedestals? debating
revolutionary iconoclasm in the post-Soviet transition, Polly Jones;
Hermetic huts and modern state: the politics of iconoclasm in West Africa,
Ramon Sarró; Select bibliography; Index.