Iconoclasm As Child's Play / Joe Moshenska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moshenska, Joe, Author.

Series:

Stanford scholarship online.

Stanford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Play--Religious aspects.

Play.

Iconoclasm.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When sacred objects were rejected during the Reformation, they were not always burned and broken but were sometimes given to children as toys. Play is typically seen as free and open, while iconoclasm, even to those who deem it necessary, is violent and disenchanting. What does it say about wider attitudes toward religious violence and children at play that these two seemingly different activities were sometimes one and the same? Drawing on a range of sixteenth-century artifacts, artworks, and texts, as well as on ancient and modern theories of iconoclasm and of play, Iconoclasm As Child's Play argues that the desire to shape and interpret the playing of children is an important cultural force. Formerly holy objects may have been handed over with an intent to debase them, but play has a tendency to create new meanings and stories that take on a life of their own. Joe Moshenska shows that this form of iconoclasm is not only a fascinating phenomenon in its own right; it has the potential to alter our understandings of the threshold between the religious and the secular, the forms and functions of play, and the nature of historical transformation and continuity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Trifle

2. Doll

3. Puppet

4. Fetish

5. Play

6. Mask

Conclusion: Toy

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503608740

1503608743

OCLC:

1178769243