Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present

Stacy Boldrick

ISBN 10: 1472413679 / ISBN 13: 9781472413673

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep 2013, 2013

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Neuware - Two key elements set this volume apart from those which have preceded it: chronological scope and disciplinary breadth. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present is the first book about iconoclasms to include contributions from an archaeologist, a curator, and a museum conservator (in tandem with a noteworthy array of additional experts).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472413679
• ISBN 13: 9781472413673
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 164H x 24D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 164 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 704 grams

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Synopsis

All cultures make, and break, images. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. With its impressive chronological sweep and disciplinary breadth, this is the first book about iconoclasm (the breaking of images) and the transformation of broader sets of signs that includes contributions from archaeologists, curators, and museum conservators as well as historians of art, literature and religious studies. The chapters examine themes critical to the study of iconoclasm: violence, punishment, memory, intentionality, ruins and relics and their survival. The conclusion shows how cross-disciplinary debate amongst the contributors informed Tate Britain’s 'Art under Attack' exhibition (2013) and addresses the challenges iconoclasm presents to the modern museum. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation, Striking Images raises provocative questions about our understandings of cross-cultural differences and the value of representational objects from the broken swords of pre-historical bog graves to the Bamiyan Buddhas and contemporary art. Are any such objects ever ’finished’, or are they simply subject to constant transformation? In dialogue with each other, the essays consider this question and expand the field of iconoclasm - and cultural - studies.

About the Author

Dr Stacy Boldrick is Curator of Research and Interpretation, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.

Professor Leslie Brubaker is Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.

Dr Richard Clay is a Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Birmingham, UK.