Iconoclasm

Abstract

"These writings explore the dynamics of iconoclasm, which in these unstable times is gaining fresh traction as an area of study. Freedberg is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost experts on iconoclasm in the world. This book collects the best of his texts, including a new essay and a freshly written up-to-date survey of the subject. The texts range in subject matter from the furious religious battles over image in the Reformation to government repression in modern South Africa and the US culture wars of the early 1990s"--

Contents

Antwerp, Mosul, and Palmyra: Theology and the Production of Violence -- Iconoclasm: The Material and Virtual Body -- Art and Iconoclasm, 1525-1580: The Case of the Northern Netherlands -- he Representation of Martyrdom during the Early Counter-Reformation in Antwerp -- The Structure of Byzantine and European Iconoclasm -- Iconoclasts and Their Motives -- Joseph Kosuth and the Play of the Unmentionable -- From Defamation to Mutilation: Reason of State and Gender Politics in South Africa -- Charlottesville -- The Wag in the Tail: Images, Iconoclasm, Art -- Appendix 1: Damnatio Memoriae: Why Mobs Pull Down Statues -- Appendix 2: The Power of Wood and Stone.