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Author   LinkBesançon, Alain.
Title   LinkThe forbidden image : an intellectual history of iconoclasm / Alain Besançon ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
Imprint   LinkChicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Descr.   viii, 423 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
 
Library Info   Stacks BR115.A8 B4713 2009 Regular Loan 
 
Gen. note   This translation originally published: 2000.
Bibliogr.   Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents   1: Iconoclasm: the ancient cycle -- The philosophical critique of the image -- The biblical prohibition -- The image in dispute -- 2: Pax Romana of the image -- The Middle Ages -- The Renaissance and the Baroque Period -- Iconoclasm: the modern cycle -- The new theology of the image -- The new theology at work -- The Russian revolution.
Abstract   Traces the dual strains of iconophilia and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of 2500 years in The West.
Language Note   Translated from the French.
 
Subject   LinkIconoclasm.
Copies   Stacks - BR115.A8 B4713 2009
Sys. no.   000585654
 
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