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Iconoclasm

2021
Abstract Iconoclasm is the modern name used to describe the debate about the legitimacy of portraits of Christ, Mary, and the saints in Orthodox devotional practice that began in the 720s and was resolved with the “triumph of Orthodoxy” in 843. It had an impact on Byzantine culture in two fundamental ways. First, it sealed the importance
Scott A. Chamberlin, Eric L. Mann
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The Palaikastro Kouros and Iconoclasm in the Wider Mediterranean Area

open access: yesEuropean Review, 2022
This article discusses the chryselephantine statue known as the Palaikastro Kouros, which was recovered in the excavations at Palaikastro in eastern Crete in the 1980s.
Helene Whittaker
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Review of Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt

Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 2023
Edward Bleiberg and Stephanie Weissberg, Striking Power: Iconoclasm in Ancient Egypt.
Vera Elizabeth Allen
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Against Prefiguration: an Anarchist Iconoclasm

Anarchist Studies, 2023
Prefigurative politics is frequently identified as a central, essential feature of anarchist theory and practice. Can claims for prefiguration's centrality to anarchism, though, withstand scrutiny?
F. Hines
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Iconoclasm, Speculative Realism, and Sympathetic Magic

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2023
In the current American iconoclash, certain monuments are subject to vandalism and municipal removal from their pedestals. Phrases such as “the erasure of history” and “damnatio memoriae” point to concerns that iconoclasm is an attempt to censor ...
Sara A. Rich, Sarah Bartholomew
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Heritage destruction in Myanmar’s Rakhine state: legal and illegal iconoclasm

open access: yesInternational Journal of Heritage Studies, 2020
In this article we map heritage destruction in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. We outline the historic and contemporary political context in Myanmar explaining the background of the Rohingya Muslim ethnic group and addressing the contribution of religion and ...
Ronan Lee   +1 more
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Attempted Iconoclasm

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2022
Dhanapāla's hymn to the image of Mahāvīra at Sanchore, composed in Apabhramsha around the beginning of the eleventh century, has been recognized to contain the earliest reference in an Indian language to Maḥmūd of Ghazna's raids in northwestern India ...
Andrew Ollett
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‘Look on my works ye mighty…’: Iconoclasm, education and the fate of statues

open access: yesJournal of Philosophy of Education, 2021
In pursuit of an alternative perspective on the so-called ‘statues controversy’, this essay brings recent interpretations of the enduring ‘power’, ‘gaze’ and ‘magic’ of statues into alignment with critical histories of iconoclasm, sacred and secular, and
R. Davis
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‘Made the absence shout’: paradox as iconoclasm in Toni Morrison’s Beloved

Journal of Literary Semantics, 2022
In 1856, Margaret Garner murdered one child, and attempted to murder three others, rather than return them to slavery. Despite the impact traumas like Garner’s had on abolition, history largely forgets or ignores these gruesome details.
Brendon K. Vayo
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