Beschreibung:
Iconoclasm and the Museum addresses the museum's historic tendency to be silent about destruction through an exploration of institutional attitudes to iconoclasm, or image breaking, and the concept's place in public display.
Introduction Clean Cuts; Chapter 1 Using and Abusing Images and Objects: After The Destruction of Art; Chapter 2 Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: Iconoclasm and Institutional Integrity; Chapter 3 Iconoclasm's Geographies: Fallen Monuments and Broken Bodies; Chapter 4 Dead Images: Losing Art; Chapter 5 Defaced: Breaking and Remaking Art Now; Conclusion Hidden Histories