Download or read book The Forbidden Image written by Alain Besançon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the privileging and prohibition of religious images over two and a half millennia in the West.
Download or read book Iconoclasmes written by Sergiusz Michalski and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L art et les r volutions Les iconoclasmes written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present written by Stacy Boldrick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity written by Assoc Prof Marina Prusac and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostile actions towards images, has occurred in many different cultures throughout history. The destruction and mutilation of images is often motivated by a blend of political and religious ideas and beliefs, and the distinction between various kinds of ‘iconoclasms’ is not absolute. In order to explore further the long and varied history of iconoclasm the contributors to this volume consider iconoclastic reactions to various types of objects, both in the very recent and distant past. Whilst the texts are addressed primarily to those researching the Western world, the volume contains material which will also be of interest to students of the Middle East.
Download or read book Imago Dei written by Jaroslav Pelikan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping account of the controversies surrounding the worship of images in the early Byzantine church In 726, the Byzantine emperor, Leo III, issued an edict that all religious images in the empire were to be destroyed, a directive that was later endorsed by a synod of the church in 753 under his son, Constantine V. If the policy of Iconoclasm had succeeded, the entire history of Christian art—and of the Christian church, at least in the East—would have been altered. Iconoclasm was defeated by Byzantine politics, popular revolts, monastic piety, and, most fundamentally of all, by theology, just as it had been theology that the opponents of images had used to justify their actions. Analyzing an intriguing chapter in the history of ideas, the renowned scholar Jaroslav Pelikan shows how a faith that began by attacking the worship of images ended first in permitting and then in commanding it. Pelikan charts the theological defense of icons during the iconoclastic controversies of the eighth and ninth centuries, whose high point came in 787, when the Second Council of Nicaea restored the cult of images in the church. He demonstrates how the dogmas of the Trinity and the Incarnation eventually provided the basic rationale for images: because the invisible God had become human and therefore personally visible in Jesus Christ, it became permissible to make images of that Image. And because not only the human nature of Christ, but that of his Mother had been transformed by the Incarnation, she, too, could be “iconized,” together with all the other saints and angels. The iconographic “text” of the book is provided by one of the very few surviving icons from the period before Iconoclasm, the Egyptian tapestry Icon of the Virgin now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Other icons serve to illustrate the theological argument, just as the theological argument serves to explain the icons. In an incisive foreword, Judith Herrin explains the enduring importance of the book and discusses how later scholars have built on Pelikan’s work. Please note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.
Download or read book Iconoclasts and Their Motives written by David Freedberg and published by . This book was released on 1986-07-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Iconoclasme written by Bernisches Historisches Museum and published by Somogy éditions d'art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'iconoclasme de la Réforme constitue l'une des plus importantes révolutions culturelles que l'Europe ait connues. Entre 1520 et 1620, ce phénomène a touché la majeure partie de l'espace culturel germanique, du territoire de la mer Baltique, des Pays-Bas, de la France et des îles Britanniques. À l'occasion de la Réforme, villes et campagnes cessèrent de financer le fastueux décor et les rites solennels des églises et se mirent à détruire les images qui symbolisaient le pouvoir du clergé et l'ordre social. Un nombre considérable d'œuvres d'art d'une valeur inestimable fut ainsi sacrifié. Le bouleversement n'affecta pas que les images saintes, mais tous les domaines de la vie, la musique, les habitudes alimentaires et même le nombre de jours ouvrables. La culture festive et dépensière de l'Église médiévale succomba à des assauts puritains pour laisser place à une nouvelle forme de religion, étroitement liée à la moralité, et qui façonne toujours nos comportements.
Download or read book Negating the Image written by Jeffrey Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do people attack monuments and other public objects charged with authority by the societies that produced them? What do open assaults on images and artworks mean? Iconoclasm, the principled destruction of images, has recurred throughout human history as theory and practice. This book contains seven historical studies of the changing causes and meanings of iconoclasm and the radical transformations in the function of images it has brought about in societies around the world, from Ancient Egypt to Islamic India and Revolutionary Mexico, as well as Medieval and Reformation Europe. Scholars of art history, history and archaeology explore shifting definitions of art and the forms of representation in delineating varied forms of 'iconoclasm'.
Download or read book Images Idolatry and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England written by Jeremy Dimmick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-02-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories. Pressures towards iconoclasm are powerfully registered in fourteenth and fifteenth-century writings, both heterodox and orthodox, just as the use of images is central to the practice of both politics and religion. The governance of images turns out, indeed, to be central to governance itself. It is also of critical concern in any moment of historical change, when new cultural forms must incorporate or destroy the images of the old order. The iconoclast redescribes images as pure matter, objects of idolatry worthy only of the hammer. Issues of historical memory, no less than of social ethics, are, then, inherent to the making, love, and destruction of images. These issues are the consistent concern of the essays of this volume, essays commissioned from a range of outstanding late medievalists in a variety of disciplines: literature, art history, Biblical studies, and intellectual history.
Download or read book Les iconoclastes written by Jean-Joseph Goux and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'iconoclasme biblique, qui refuse toute tentative fétichiste au profit de la sévère discipline du temple vide, contraste si rigoureusement avec la fantastique prolifération chrétienne des images, qu'on peut entendre du côté du judaïsme, jusque dans sa postérité théorique la plus infidèle, un rapport différent à ce qui s'imagine. Et, de fait, l'antique soupçon portant sur toute représentation est reconduit souterrainement dans le geste par lequel Marx dénonce et démonte la "camera oscura" de l'idéologie, et par lequel Freud découvre les leurres de l'imaginaire. Dans ce livre où se croisent des filières venant de la psychanalyse, de l'esthétique, de la sémiotique, de l'économie, de l'histoire de la philosophie, on reconnaîtra autour de nous, que ce soit à travers la peinture abstraite, l'utopie, le fétichisme, le problème économique de l'étalon ou la différence des sexes, la même insistance sur l'infigurable. Mais il apparaîtra aussi que l'iconoclasme, cet antique rapport négatif à l'image, prend aujourd'hui un sens nouveau, peut-être vertigineux, de ressurgir au sein d'une culture scientifico-technique qui, loin d'être une terre d'Egypte avec ses dieux, ses hiéroglyphes et ses sphinx, réduit plutôt le symbole à une opération insensée.
Download or read book Iconoclasm written by David Freedberg and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These writings explore the dynamics of iconoclasm, which in these unstable times is gaining fresh traction as an area of study. Freedberg is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost experts on iconoclasm in the world. This book collects the best of his texts, including a new essay and a freshly written up-to-date survey of the subject. The texts range in subject matter from the furious religious battles over image in the Reformation to government repression in modern South Africa and the US culture wars of the early 1990s"--
Download or read book Under the Hammer written by James Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconoclasm is not a barbaric act which takes place somewhere else but is instead a central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art derives in part from the fact that we did, and still do, that. This is most obviously true of England's iconoclastic century between 1538 and 1643, which stands at the core of this book.
Download or read book Iconoclasme written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L ic ne dans la pens e et dans l art written by Kristina Mitalaité and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trois séries d'articles proposent des recherches thématiques sur les liens noués à des moments clés de l'histoire entre le concept théologique d'image de Dieu et l'icône comme image de culte dans le christianisme gréco-latin, syriaque, médiéval byzantin, russe et polonais. 0La synonymie icône? image divine? objet de culte a toujours posé problème. Evidente pour les Byzantins vainqueurs dans la crise qui a opposé les adorateurs des icônes au parti des iconoclastes, elle est cependant contestée aussi bien par les Latins, malgré les vertus pédagogiques qu?ils ont assignées aux images, que par nombre de communautés chrétiennes orientales habituées à accorder un pouvoir divin aux objets de culte et aux reliques. Cette synonymie repose toutefois sur l?un des principes fondateurs du christianisme : le rapport entre la connaissance de Dieu et le statut de l?homme ± image de Dieu?. Les études ici réunies ne sont pas focalisées sur le seul dossier théorique de l?image fourni par les crises iconoclastes byzantines et les ripostes latines. Focalisées sur trois moments historiques du christianisme, elles cherchent à saisir les différents enjeux théologiques, politiques et artistiques de la notion d?image divine. Dans ses deux premières parties, le volume propose un croisement et un affrontement des perspectives grecque, puis byzantine, et latine romaine, puis carolingienne sur le monde visible et l?image.
Download or read book Images du Christ written by Jean-Michel Spieser and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Likeness and Presence written by Hans Belting and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-08-15 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its changing role in European culture. Likeness and Presence looks at the beliefs, superstitions, hopes, and fears that come into play as people handle and respond to sacred images, and presents a compelling interpretation of the place of the image in Western history. "A rarity within its genre—an art-historical analysis of iconography which is itself iconoclastic. . . . One of the most intellectually exciting and historically grounded interpretations of Christian iconography." —Graham Howes, Times Literary Supplement "Likeness and Presence offers the best source to survey the facts of what European Christians put in their churches. . . . An impressively detailed contextual analysis of medieval objects." —Robin Cormack, New York Times Book Review "I cannot begin to describe the richness or the imaginative grandeur of Hans Belting's book. . . . It is a work that anyone interested in art, or in the history of thought about art, should regard as urgent reading. It is a tremendous achievement."—Arthur C. Danto, New Republic
