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No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism
A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel partial defence of political iconoclasm as a protest ...
Alice Madeleine Hilder Jarvis
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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.
Stacy Boldrick, Richard Clay
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Taking a cue from Gottfried Boehm’s Bildkritik, I consider the iconoclastic ruination by protesters in 2016, of the statue of the first State President of the Republic of South Africa, on the campus of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein ...
Suzanne de Villiers-Human
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Destruction of a Sacrosanct Past: Iconoclasm and Norse Revival in Post-war Norway
Central to this reflection upon the interconnectedness between the destruction of a monument in Norway after the Second World War and iconoclasm will be work by Swiss art historian Dario Gamboni who, in The Destruction of Art (1997), argues that any ...
Tonje Haugland Sørensen
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Echoes of Iconoclasm in the Modern Polish‑Lithuanian Commonwealth
On the wave of the so‑called II iconoclasm, which encompassed northern Europe, similar movements, or rather local iconoclastic actions, were revealed in the Polish Republic in the modern period (16th–18th century), wherever the voice of the dissenters ...
M. Kruk
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Keeping Everyone on Board: Gregory the Great’s ‘Theory of Iconoclasm’
Pope Gregory the Great (s. 590–604) wrote two letters to Bishop Serenus of Marseilles, reproaching his acts of iconoclasm that had led to schism in his community.
B. Crostini
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Conquering the Idols: English Iconoclasm in Ireland, 1649–1660
The English Parliament's conquest of Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century left memories of violence that persist even in modern Ireland. This article considers one important but neglected dimension to the English campaign and subsequent rule: the ...
Joan Redmond
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This article is devoted to the study of ‘demolition’ (destruction) of monuments as a cultural phenomenon, which unexpectedly emerges in certain historical periods.
Viktoriya Sukovata
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Forensic Turning Points: Exhumations, Dignity, and Iconoclasm
Between 100,000 and 130,000 people were murdered during the war and dictatorship in Spain from 1936 onward. Thousands of bodies were buried in mass graves which were then monumentalized decades later.
Daniel Palacios González
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Paradoxical personality scale: Its development and construct validity analysis [PDF]
Se presenta el proceso de construcción y validación de la Escala de Personalidad Paradójica, diseñada a partir de la propuesta de Csikszentmihalyi (1996), quien describiera el concepto evaluado en relación a los individuos creativos.
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