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From Louis to the "Carnival of the dead mongts": western art in search of meaning, or how painters thrown between the cross and bones / От Людовика до «Карнавала мертвых дворняг»: западное искусство в поисках смысла, или как живописцы метались между крестом и костями

open access: yesИндустрии впечатлений: Технологии социокультурных исследований
In today's Russian mass consciousness, there is an attitude that contemporary art, primarily Western, embarked on the path of departure from canonical images and structures in relatively recent times – about a hundred years ago.
Alexander Kashchenko / Александр Викторович Кащенко   +1 more
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Iconoclasm the breaking and making of images

open access: yes, 2019
"Iconoclasm--the alteration, destruction, or displacement of icons--is usually considered taboo or profane. But, on occasion, the act of destroying the sacred unintentionally bestows iconic status on the desecrated object.
Stapleton, Rachel F.   +2 more
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The power of iconic memory : iconoclasm as a mental marker [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Iconoclasm has a particular effect in that it creates an image that is even more powerful than the image it has destroyed. While many physical images might have disappeared due to the iconoclasm, the mental image of all who witnessed this dramatic moment
Koenraad Jonckheere   +1 more
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Epistemology and Ontology in Family Therapy: A ‘Holding’ of Both

open access: yesJournal of Family Therapy, Volume 48, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the changes brought to family therapy by the advent of postmodern philosophy. We examine the role of social constructionism in this context and distinguish its various versions based on their realist or anti‐realist perspectives.
Tasos Travasaros
wiley   +1 more source

The Iconic Word: The Theological and Rhetorical Sources of a New Ut Pictura Poesis

open access: yesSillages Critiques, 2016
This article questions the Renaissance, humanist understanding of the Horatian adage, Ut Pictura Poesis, and endeavors to elucidate the specific ways in which a lyric poem can be considered as an object to be looked at. The early modern poetic production
Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
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Churchill and Spain: More Sancho than Quixote?

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 217-236, March 2026.
Abstract This article offers a detailed analysis of Winston Churchill's relationship with Spain over the course of his long and eventful political and personal life. The article focuses on three key episodes: Churchill's ambivalent stance during the Spanish Civil War; his leadership and policy towards Spain during the crucial years of the Second World ...
EMILIO SÁENZ‐FRANCÉS
wiley   +1 more source

Art, Trent, and Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment”

open access: yesReligions, 2012
Michelangelo’s “Last Judgment” in the Sistine Chapel is one of the world’s most famous paintings, completed in 1542. Greatly admired, it was also criticized for the frontal nudity of some of the figures.
John O'Malley
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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This work reflects on the presence of a desacralized Buddha statue in the Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography, established in Parma, Italy, in 1901 by Xaverian missionaries. The Buddha's hollowed back is a potent trace of the transnational interactions between these Roman Catholic missionaries and folk believers from the Henan region ...
Valentina Gamberi
wiley   +1 more source

Aristotle and Byzantine Iconoclasm

open access: yesGreek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2013
The defense of icons shifted gradually from a theory of mimesis to Aristotelian symbolism; this reflected not a revival of learning but arguments developed in the debate itself and hinted at already by Constantine V and at the Council of 787.
Thalia Anagnostopoulos
doaj  

Ancestral Connections: Re-Evaluating Concepts of Superimpositioning and Vandalism in Rock Art Studies

open access: yesOpen Archaeology
The aim of this article is to comprehend the significance of superimpositions as social practices and processes and to deconstruct how notions of superimpositions and vandalism have been used in rock art studies.
Motta Ana Paula, Hampson Jamie
doaj   +1 more source

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