Iconoclasm : the breaking and making of images / edited by Rachel F. Stapleton and Antonio Viselli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stapleton, Rachel F., editor.

Viselli, Antonio, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Case studies.

Aesthetics.

Image (Philosophy)--Case studies.

Image (Philosophy).

Iconoclasm--Case studies.

Iconoclasm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Iconoclasm--the alteration, destruction, or displacement of icons--is usually considered taboo or profane. But, on occasion, the act of destroying the sacred unintentionally bestows iconic status on the desecrated object. Iconoclasm examines the reciprocity between the building and the breaking of images, paying special attention to the constructive power of destructive acts. Although iconoclasm carries with it inherently religious connotations, this volume examines the shattering of images beyond the spiritual and the sacred. Presenting responses to renowned cultural anthropologist and theorist Michael Taussig, these essays centre on conceptual iconoclasm and explore the sacrality of objects and belief systems from historical, cultural, and disciplinary perspectives. From Milton and Nietzsche to Paul Newman and Banksy, through such diverse media and genres as photography, the popular romance novel, pornography, graffiti, cinema, advertising, and the dictionary, this book questions how icons and iconoclasms are represented, the language used to describe them, and the manner in which objects signify once they are shattered. An interdisciplinary, disconnected, and non-linear consideration of the historic and contemporary relationship between the sacred and the profane, Iconoclasm disrupts entrenched views about the revered or reviled idols present in most aspects of daily life."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

If Itn's Broke, Donn't Fix It: The Back-to-Front Logic of Iconoclasm

Iconoclasm Dictionary

An Aesthetics of Splendour

Visionary Camera: The Polaroid SX-70 and Marian Apparition Photography

The Bluest Eye: Paul Newman, Iconoclasm, and the Shameless Exploitation of Beauty

Q Is for Queer: Banksy, Iconoclasm, and the Queering of British Traditional Authority

What the Disaster Writes: Contemplations of the Fall

Twilight of the Idle, or How to Historicize with a Hammer: Milton, Nietzsche, and the Iconoclasm of English Identity

The Idolatry of the Real: Form, Formula, and Happy Endings in Romance Literature

Vampire, Cannibal, Iconoclast: Displacing Genitality and Desecrating Genre

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780773558397

077355839X

9780773558380

0773558381