The vicissitudes of seeing: iconoclasm and idolatry
โ Scribed by David Morgan
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Volume
- 33
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0048-721X
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โฆ Synopsis
Recent work on the history of iconoclasm has made several important contributions to the understanding of images and the meaning of their destruction or proscription in several world religions. First, scholars have linked iconoclasm to the polemical construction of idolatry and have rigorously historicised both as polemical formations that are embedded in social conflict. Second, recent scholarship has integrated the study of the destruction of images into larger, encompassing narratives regarding the social and cultural functions of imagery and its destruction, seeing the image as a locus or crossroads, a site in which long narratives of cultural history
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