Iconoclasm : contested objects, contested terms / edited by Stacy Boldrick and Richard Clay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boldrick, Stacy.

Clay, Richard (Richard S.)

Series:

Subject/object--new studies in sculpture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc--Congresses.

Art.

Iconoclasm--Congresses.

Iconoclasm.

Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xviii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

What does iconoclasm create? What does preservation destroy? : reflections on iconoclasm in East Asia / Fabio Rambelli and Eric Reinders

Attacks on automata and eviscerated sculptures / Aura Satz

Iconoclasm and consumption, or, Household management according to Thomas Cromwell / Matthew Hunter

Iconoclasm, the commodity, and the art of painting / Charles Ford

Bouchardon's statue of Louis XV ; iconoclasm and the transformation of signs / Richard Clay

"Wyatt the Destroyer" : a vandal at Salisbury Cathedral? / Alexandrina Buchanan

Clastic icons : prints taken from broken or reassembled blocks in some 'popular prints' of the western tradition / Tom Gretton

Making sense of iconoclasm : popular responses to the destruction of religious images in revolutionary Mexico / Adrian A. Bantjes

Surrealism in the Bronze Age : statuephobia and the efficacy of metaphorical iconoclasm / Simon Baker

Sturm auf das Stadtbild : on the treatment of Wilhelminian architectural decoration in the twentieth century / Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen

'Idols in stone' or empty pedestals? : debating revolutionary iconoclasm in the post-Soviet transition / Polly Jones

Hermetic huts and the modern state : the politics of iconoclasm in West Africa / Ramon Sarró.

Notes:

Outgrowth of a conference held at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, July 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-283) and index.

ISBN:

9780754654216

0754654214

OCLC:

71833409