Sentences with word «iconoclasm»

How else to explain the abrupt popping up of the Chapman brothers in an exhibition devoted to the sickening and violent history of iconoclasm in Britain?

She said: «There has been no exhibition to explore that history of iconoclasm in Britain,» adding it was a «very hard exhibition to make.

But a student of the history of that school of anti «art known as iconoclasm knows he must seek other game than the easy prey of nihilist art.

Mr. Stone also loved the comic iconoclasm of Robert Arneson, the late Bay Area ceramicist whose clay toilet and other funky objects made their Manhattan premiere at the Allan Stone Gallery when nobody else would touch them.

Our inheritance of Reformation iconoclasm is usually put...

That night, two enduring fashion figures, Calvin Klein and Donna Karan, carried the torch for iconoclasm at a reception for Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone's Fifth Avenue showroom.

Eight Blocks or a Field, Temporary Gallery, Cologne (2013); Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm, Tate Britain, London (2013); Not Just the Perfect Moment, The Drawing Room, London; Tales of the City, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (both 2012).

Revisit Marina Warner's 2015 essay on iconoclasm and contesting the story of the past.

One more matter before we leave the controversy over iconoclasm in Orthodox belief.

We are no longer seriously inhibited by Protestant iconoclasm, but the wellsprings are dry.

So iconoclasm — the abhorrence of the use of opaque images — became a permanent feature of the religious tradition.

In fact, staging a limited but razor - sharp exhibition about iconoclasm in parallel with one about the taste for ruins actually makes a lot of sense.

Tate Britain's «Art Under Attack» fails to address acts of contemporary iconoclasm, such as the destruction of the Chartist Mural in Wales

The 2013 exhibition Art Under Attack, which explored iconoclasm, was described by the Guardian's art critic, Jonathan Jones, as «ambivalent, pretentious... making no sense».

They recognized their shared iconoclasm, and saw the potential for inspiring other partnerships nationwide.

In our era, iconoclasm attacks the spiritual trinity of Money, State, and Technique.

This uneasiness with Christ's true flesh becomes especially clear in a passage from Origen that Besançon quotes as the most telling expression of Origen's implicit iconoclasm:

Whitehead's remark quoted above is not intended to show that progress in religion is characterized by mere iconoclasm.

But even though iconoclasm in the material sphere was the characteristic act of Christian intransigence at the beginning of the Church's history, at the time of the monks of the Egyptian desert in the fourth century, and in the Reformation, it no longer seems to concern us much.

He attacks them by considering iconoclasm as the first act of the Christian life: the first and continuous act, the breaking down of images through the Word.

A similar iconoclasm had occurred in the Byzantine Empire in the eighth century under the influence of Islam.

«There's some permanent iconoclasms in my psyche.

Luther allowed and other reformers encouraged or even enforced a widespread and devastating iconoclasm.

As everyone now knows, this movement eventually terminated in one more dreary episode of modernist iconoclasm.

Radical iconoclasm has, in my judgment, a shameful history.

Even had the Calvinist iconoclasm of the day not discouraged Christian art, it is unlikely that Rembrandt's vision of the poor and humble.

Yet what has happened to the bold iconoclasm on which the democracy of this country was founded?

Yet his theory fails to account for Luther's indifference and Calvin's outright iconoclasm.

An old dream come true for its director, John Krokidas, who spent years raising the money (the film was eventually produced by Killer Films, Christine Vachon's production company), Kill Your Darlingsreturns to 1944, at the time of the meeting between Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe, shedding his Harry Potter virginity to embody an icon of sexual iconoclasm), Lucien Carr (an alluring Dane DeHan), William Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston).

Plus, iconoclasm against feminine ideals carries heavier consequences in Tehran than in Sacramento.

Director Paul Bartel infused puckish iconoclasm into his original drive - in quickie, complete with cartoonish pro-wrestling-style drivers engaged in its cheerfully violent cross-country car race.

PT: You also acknowledge in the essay the acceptance of a certain iconoclasm, a willingness on the part of the artists to make objects that risk obscurity by refusing to cater to a culture defined by technological advance.

Though the objects are often ripe with holy allusions, Beck cuts the saintliness with a pervasive sense of humor and a playful iconoclasm.

As the international art world touches down in Turkey against a backdrop of ISIS iconoclasm, it's worth asking: Just where does festival culture leave us?

Plainly speaking, once the initial bombast and controversy surrounding Rivington Place's construction died down, regard for Iniva has been allowed to slide from recognition of its initial iconoclasm and brilliance to an informal consensus about its current inconsequence and irrelevance.

As the specter of iconoclasm continues to resurface in current events, «The Keeper» will present the complex lives of images and objects that have escaped a tragic end alongside the existential adventures of individuals driven by unreasonable acts of iconophilia.

In the exhibition, Tate presents iconoclasm as largely a historical phenomenon, but in doing so overlooks acts of image - breaking that are taking place all too frequently today both outside and inside the gallery.

It is hard to believe that What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me celebrates the centenary of the first readymade in art, such was his prescient iconoclasm.

One of the most telling images in the Museum of Modern Art's beautiful but demanding survey of the Conceptual photographer Christopher Williams represents an act of elegant iconoclasm.

A rare phenomenon for contemporary art exhibitions were the queues that formed soon after the show opened, in response, no doubt, to the positive press reviews, testament to the fact that Duchamp's ironic iconoclasm is still relevant.

One of the inspirations for this return to drawing was, in fact, an act of erasure - Robert Rauschenberg's Erased De Kooning Drawing (1953), an act of seemingly destructive iconoclasm that itself became an iconic moment in 20th century art history.