Sentences with phrase «on iconoclasm»

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On the contrary, iconoclasm is always essential to the degree that other gods and other representations are manifested.

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.

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.

For Besançon makes clear that without the tremendous hold that Origen's Platonism held on all the Eastern churches (despite his condemnation two centuries earlier), iconoclasm would have been robbed of its most plausible argument.

She continues: «The justification for the literal iconoclasm in Catholic churches could hardly have been more clearly expressed by Cromwell's Roundheads after they had systematically beheaded every image in the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral or smashed all the stained glass windows at Canterbury, although Cromwell's soldiers were undoubtedly responsible for destroying far fewer sacred images than the liturgical «experts» who imposed their views of renewal on the Catholic churches across America.»

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.

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

Both artists are no stranger to iconoclasm and have a strong predilection for the application of scientific techniques within their artistic practice, be it the use of X-rays on paintings or diamond turning on an antique bronze mirror.

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.

Their declarations of freedom and iconoclasm - including Pollock's rejection of easel painting and Johns and Rauschenberg's calculated attacks on the idea of good taste - have become artistic monuments.

Tate Modern on Fire can either function as a proposition or a warning — what initially seems as cultural iconoclasm is revealed to possess much deeper meanings.

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.

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

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.

Yet, apparently unaware of the inspiration that his integrity and uncompromising attitude have exerted on a generation of younger artists, he frequently voiced misgivings that his conduct would be interpreted in terms of «bitterness, self - pity or iconoclasm.»