Iconoclasm

"These writings explore the dynamics of iconoclasm, which in these unstable times is gaining fresh traction as an area of study. Freedberg is widely acknowledged as one of the foremost experts on iconoclasm in the world. This book collects the best of his texts, including a new essay and a freshly written up-to-date survey of the subject. The texts range in subject matter from the furious religious battles over image in the Reformation to government repression in modern South Africa and the US culture wars of the early 1990s"--

About the author

David Freedberg is the Pierre Matisse Professor of the history of art at Columbia University and director of the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. He is the author of The Power of Images, which has been translated into many languages, and of the award-winning The Eye of the Lynx. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society as well as of the Accademia Nazionale di Agricultura and the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti.

Product details

• Authors: David Freedberg
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9780226445335
• ISBN: 978-0-226-44533-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; History, RELIGION / General, HISTORY / General, ART / History / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History of art / art & design styles, Religion & beliefs, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Art, Archaeology, Religion and beliefs, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards