Negating the Image: Case Studies in Iconoclasm - Rilegato

Johnson, Jeffrey

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0754608549 ISBN 13: 9780754608547

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2005

Riassunto

Why do people attack monuments and other public objects charged with authority by the societies that produced them? What do open assaults on images and artworks mean? Iconoclasm, the principled destruction of images, has recurred throughout human history as theory and practice. This book contains seven historical studies of the changing causes and meanings of iconoclasm and the radical transformations in the function of images it has brought about in societies around the world, from Ancient Egypt to Islamic India and Revolutionary Mexico, as well as Medieval and Reformation Europe. Scholars of art history, history and archaeology explore shifting definitions of art and the forms of representation in delineating varied forms of 'iconoclasm'.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Anne McClanan is Associate Professor of Art History at Portland State University, USA and Jeffrey Johnson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas, USA.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0754608549
• ISBN 13: 9780754608547
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 204
• Redattore: McClanan Anne