Iconoclasm : contested objects, contested terms /
edited by Stacy Boldrick and Richard Clay.
- xviii, 293 p.
- Subject/object : new studies in sculpture .
Outgrowth of a conference held at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, July 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What does iconoclasm create? : what does preservation destroy? : reflections on iconoclasm in East Asia / Attacks on automata and eviscerated sculptures / Iconoclasm and consumption; or, household management according to Thomas Cromwell / Iconoclasm, the commodity, and the art of painting / Bouchardon's statue of Louis XV; iconoclasm and the transformation of signs / 'Wyatt the Destroyer' : a vandal at Salisbury Cathedral? / Clastic icons : prints taken from broken or reassembled blocks in some 'popular prints' of the Western tradition / Making sense of iconoclasm : popular responses to the destruction of religious images in revolutionary Mexico / Surrealism in the Bronze Age : statuephobia and the efficacy of metaphorical iconoclasm / Sturm auf das Stadtbild : on the treatment of Wilhelminian architectural decoration in the twentieth century / 'Idols in stone' or empty pedestals? : debating revolutionary iconoclasm in the post-Soviet transition / Hermetic huts and modern state : the politics of iconoclasm in West Africa / Fabio Rambelli and Eric Reinders -- Aura Satz -- Matthew Hunter -- Charles Ford -- Richard Clay -- Alexandrina Buchanan -- Tom Gretton -- Adrian A. Bantjes -- Simon Baker -- Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen -- Polly Jones -- Ramon Sarro. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
"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."--BOOK JACKET.