T’s Art Issue: The Power of Saying No - The New York Times
WEB1 day ago · The Power of Saying No. T looks at some of contemporary art’s genuine iconoclasts — celebrated recluses and others who’ve managed to create an alternate way of being a creative person in a ...
What Toppled Confederate Statues and Cancel Culture ... - Columbia News
WEBOct 18, 2021 · The essays explore the dynamics and history of iconoclasm, from the furious battles over images during the Reformation to government repression in modern South Africa, the American culture wars of the early 1990s, and today’s cancel culture.
Iconoclasm - Wikipedia
WEBIconoclasm (from Greek: εἰκών, eikṓn, 'figure, icon' + κλάω, kláō, 'to break') [i] is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons.
Video: Destroying Images: Current Iconoclasm in Context
WEBMar 1, 2016 · The destruction of iconic images and monuments—iconoclasm—carried out today by extremists representing a wide range of political and religious views, makes many recoil in horror. This response, however, is in part derived from the fact that our Western cultures have themselves been fiercely iconoclastic. James Simpson discusses the six ...
Iconoclasm Today: Art Under Attack - Apollo Magazine
WEBOct 12, 2013 · Tate’s show explores historical iconoclasm by examining the contested relationship between art and power. But it is worth remembering that these conflicts are very much alive today, wherever art is publicly displayed.
What a previous iconoclastic period reveals about the present …
WEBJan 8, 2022 · The iconoclasts of the 16th and 17th centuries transformed art and architecture, and changed assumptions about what religious buildings, streets and homes should look like.
Art historian answers: Why does iconoclasm continue to matter?
WEBJan 13, 2014 · The history of iconoclasm, or image breaking, reveals much about our continuing and complex relationship to images, giving insight into larger questions concerning the sacred and the profane, materiality and spirituality, religion and modernity, says an art historian.
Iconoclasm - Columbia News
WEBWith new surges of activity from religious, political, and military extremists, the destruction of images has become increasingly relevant on a global scale. A founder of the study of early modern and contemporary iconoclasm, David Freedberg has addressed this …
Smashing Statues: Re-evaluating Iconoclasm in History
WEBNov 17, 2023 · For millennia, images have been attacked and removed, and the faces of gods and political elites disfigured: from the ancient world to the Beeldenstorm (the ‘storm of images’) in the sixteenth century to the toppling of statues of Lenin and Saddam Hussein in the twentieth century.
What the history of iconoclasm tells us about the Confederate …
WEBNov 2, 2017 · The policy deeply divided the empire and caused the pope in Rome to anathematize and excommunicate the emperor’s iconoclast followers.