Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition
by
James Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric. Iconoclasts are people like the Taliban, who blew up Buddhist statues in 2001. We tend, that is, to look with horror on iconoclasm. This book argues instead that iconoclasm...