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Anna M. Kim
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Bamiyan Buddhas
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Byzantine Iconoclasm
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Chapman Henry
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cross-cultural symbolism
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Deliberate Destruction
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Eric Reinders
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Fabio Rambelli
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Frescoes
Gearey Benjamin
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heritage conservation theory
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Iconoclastic Acts
Iconoclastic Destruction
Image Destruction
Iron Age Inhabitants
Jamal J. Elias
James Noyes
James Simpson
Jonathan Ashley-Smith
Lauren Dudley
Leslie Brubaker
material culture studies
Megan E. O'Neil
memoriae
museum responses to iconoclasm
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Pantheon
Pristine
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religious artefact destruction
Republic's War Efforts
Republic’s War Efforts
Richard Clay
Roman Antiquity
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Simon Baker
Simon Cane
Staffordshire Hoard
Tabitha Barber
Taliban's Actions
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138547537
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Apr 2018
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

All cultures make, and break, images. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. With its impressive chronological sweep and disciplinary breadth, this is the first book about iconoclasm (the breaking of images) and the transformation of broader sets of signs that includes contributions from archaeologists, curators, and museum conservators as well as historians of art, literature and religious studies. The chapters examine themes critical to the study of iconoclasm: violence, punishment, memory, intentionality, ruins and relics and their survival. The conclusion shows how cross-disciplinary debate amongst the contributors informed Tate Britain’s 'Art under Attack' exhibition (2013) and addresses the challenges iconoclasm presents to the modern museum. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation, Striking Images raises provocative questions about our understandings of cross-cultural differences and the value of representational objects from the broken swords of pre-historical bog graves to the Bamiyan Buddhas and contemporary art. Are any such objects ever ’finished’, or are they simply subject to constant transformation? In dialogue with each other, the essays consider this question and expand the field of iconoclasm - and cultural - studies.
About

Dr Stacy Boldrick is Curator of Research and Interpretation, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.

Professor Leslie Brubaker is Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.

Dr Richard Clay is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Birmingham, UK.