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Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Clarendon Lectures in English)

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||1 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| "Iconoclasm is a central strand of Anglo-American modernity."|By ROROTOKO|This book is on the Rorotoko list. Professor Simpson's interview on "Under the Hammer" ran as the Rorotoko Cover Feature on April 6, 2011 (and can be read in the Rorotoko archive).| ||"This is a splendid book from which anyone trained in medieval or early modern literature, art history, religious studies, theology, or philosophy, could certainly profit." --The Medieval |||About the Author||

When we think of breaking images, we assume that it happens somewhere else. We also tend to think of iconoclasts as barbaric. Iconoclasts are people like the Taliban, who blew up Buddhist statues in 2001. We tend, that is, to look with horror on iconoclasm.

This book argues instead that iconoclasm is a central strand of Anglo-American modernity. Our horror at the destruction of art derives in part from the fact that we too did, and still do, that. This is most...

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