Sentences with phrase «of 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?

His stainless steel series entitled Deflated Sculpture (2009) refigures Jeff Koon's iconic balloon rabbit in various stages of collapse; letting the air out isn't an act of iconoclasm so much as giving the original idea new life.

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

For perhaps more than any other philosopher of modernity Nietzsche espouses the fiercest version of iconoclasm, an attack on the image that, for sheer ferocity, has its only philosophical counterpart in Plato.

Through over 200 works, the exhibition will highlight the importance of iconoclasm and art's key role in breaking rules and traditions.

The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm By Alain Besançon Translated by Jean Marie Todd University of Chicago Press.

Whether by way of the iconoclasm of the prophets of Israel or the logos of Greek thinking, the West has negated the immediate actuality of the world, and subordinated world as such to that which is apprehended as lying beyond or apart from it.

Indeed, this complex mixture accounts for the frequent outbursts of iconoclasm that have punctuated Church history down through the ages in both Eastern and Western churches.

In that sense, it is accurate to say that Plato is the father of iconoclasm.

The recovery of wonder in the church will necessarily take the form of an iconoclasm — the risky business of smashing idols.

While both of these factors — an inherited distrust of physical form, and a current focus on monetary economies — clearly shape our feelings and actions in relation to art, the equivocal nature of the Protestant relationship to the arts becomes ever clearer if we look at what lies behind the question of iconoclasm.

His defense of this iconoclasm is somewhat complex, but we shall present an abbreviated adaptation of it at this point.

The exhibition takes viewers through a chronological story of iconoclasm, each room presenting a more recent aspect of Britain's history where what some viewed as defacement or vandalism and others interpreted as political or aesthetic statements peppered the art of the time.

At his most lucid (a term applied loosely), Kilmer, with a touch of iconoclasm, imparts a little about Mamet's process, including the hyphenate playwright's use of his children as a barometer for material and preference for «traditional» filmmaking techniques.

I continued my campaign of iconoclasm with my first - grade reader — Linda and Larry, it was called, and Larry was about a head taller than Linda and always the leader in whatever banal activity the two were called on to perform.

But the Hole is trying mightily to realize its own brand of iconoclasm.

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.

To make matters worse, two exhibitions were on anti-art themes of iconoclasm («Art Under Attack» in 2013) and ruins («Ruin Lust» in 2014), which seemed to betray a loss of faith in British art and a mood of pessimism within the museum.

«My process of making is always a certain type of iconoclasm,» Hiorns said.

They dissect, analyze and redefine these phenomena to invite us to rethink contemporary society's existing symbols of iconoclasm and idolatry, causing us to look behind the clichés that we encounter in the stream of life.

The project is driven by Romero's interest in establishing parallels between the tradition of iconoclasm and Spanish political heterodoxy in general, on the one hand, and radical avant - garde art practices, from Malevich to the Situationists, on the other.

Seizing the «found object» of his crated sculpture, Cattelan turns the apparatus of art presentation in on itself, conjuring the spiritual from the mundane to create an icon of iconoclasm.

The subject of iconoclasm was something Tate Britain «ought to do,» she said and had thought of it as a potential exhibition before she took over at the gallery three years ago.

From the state - sanctioned zeal of religious reformers and the symbolic statue - breaking that often accompanies political change to attacks on art by individuals stimulated by moral or aesthetic outrage, this study aims to present the rationale of iconoclasm and how it has become a productive and transformational practice for some contemporary artists.

He later also established his connection with Dada's mood of iconoclasm and disgust with society first by his violent imagery, and then by his handling of tarry blacks, his non-aesthetic, industrial textures, and by embedding cigarette ends, broken glass and bits of string in his pigment.

At a time when the very notion of iconoclasm has seemingly become mainstream, Iconoclasts brings together the work of thirteen distinct contemporary figures, seeking to examine what it means to be an iconoclast today.

However, 21st century culture has eroded the radicalism of this concept, and artists are now questioning the intrinsic nature of iconoclasm itself by scrutinizing what defines a work of art.

As I understand and vaguely recall my creative writing days, good writing requires some amount of iconoclasm, damn - them - all spirit, and dispensing with prevailing thought.

MG On the other hand, many of your works appear to be broken, consumed, as ruins or victims of acts of iconoclasm.

Through over 200 works, the exhibition highlights the importance of iconoclasm and art's key role in breaking rules and traditions.»

The Daily Telegraph's Richard Dorment wrote: «When some bright spark at Tate Britain came up with the idea of doing a show about the history of iconoclasm in this country, why wasn't the plan strangled at birth?»

Although both «lungs» of the Church of the Christ have experienced the tuberculosis of iconoclasm (indeed, the very term «iconoclasm» comes from the struggle of the Greek Church against the attempts of a Greek emperor to ban icons), the Greek version of iconoclasm was much influenced not only by imperial fiat but also by the surrounding sea of Muslim culture, whereas the iconoclasm of Western Puritanism was born out of Calvin's reliance on Old Testament Law.

As it happens, the same hostility can actually be ascribed to all the plastic arts, as Alain Besançon demonstrates in his remarkable history of iconoclasm, a history he traces from Moses and the pre «Socratic philosophers down to the Soviet commissars of art.

Peasants revolted, and popular acts of iconoclasm were undertaken.

In an effort at control, or perhaps a defiant act of iconoclasm, these works reject our gaze.

It was an unhappy coincidence that the same week Tate Britain opened its new exhibition «Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm», a controversial act of iconoclasm was taking place in Newport in South Wales.

But yesterday the Turner Prize produced the most stomach - churning exhibit in its 18 - year history of iconoclasm and notoriety.