Jeffrey Johnson

Negating the Image

Case Studies in Iconoclasm
Herausgeber: McClanan, Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

Negating the Image 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'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780754608547
• ISBN-10: 0754608549
• Artikelnr.: 21908571

Autorenporträt

Anne McClanan is Associate Professor of Art History at Portland State University, USA and Jeffrey Johnson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Arkansas, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: 'O for a muse of fire ... ', Anne McClanan and
Jeffrey Johnson; Refiguring iconoclasm in the early Indian mosque, Finbarr
B. Flood; The war against idols: the meanings of iconoclasm in
revolutionary Mexico, 1910-40, Adrian A. Bantjes; Fallen idols and risen
saints: western attitudes towards the worship of images and the 'cultura
veterum deorum', Beate Fricke; Seeing is believing but words tell no lies:
captions versus images in the Libri Carolini and Byzantine Iconoclasm, Liz
James; Naming names and shifting identities in ancient Egyptian iconoclasm,
Penelope Wilson; Supplanting the devotional image after Netherlandish
iconoclasm, Mia M. Mochizuki; Preservation and destruction, oblivion and
memory, Dario Gamboni; Index.