Sentences with phrase «though 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.

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

Others, though, greeted it as a masterpiece and called for it to have a permanent life (which was not the artist's intention), comparing its destruction to the iconoclasm of the English Reformation.

Though entirely disparate, their work shares a tendency towards iconoclasm, stylization, cultural commentary, humor, and irreverent experimental bravado.