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Art under attack : histories of British iconoclasm / edited by Tabitha Barber and Stacy Boldrick.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Tate Publishing, 2013Description: 187 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781849760300
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction / Tabitha Barber and Stacy Boldrick -- Iconoclasms past and present : conflict and art / Stacy Boldrick -- Idolatry, iconoclasm and the reformation's long legacy / Tabitha Barber -- 1. Religion. Dissolution : the dissolution of the monasteries / Susan Harrison ; Reformation / Richard Williams ; Puritan iconoclasm : monuments of superstition and idolatry / Tabitha Barber -- 2. Politics. Politics and the public space : making and breaking public sculpture, 1688-1929 / M.G. Sullivan ; Suffragettes : the political value of iconoclastic acts / Lena Mohamed -- 3. Aesthetics. Attacks on art / Stacy Boldrick ; Destruction in art : destruction/creation : act or perish / Andrew Wilson ; Art transformed : matter and translation in contemporary art / Stacy Boldrick.

Published to accompany the exhibition held at Tate Britain, 2 October 2013 - 5 January 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-179) and index.

Introduction / Tabitha Barber and Stacy Boldrick -- Iconoclasms past and present : conflict and art / Stacy Boldrick -- Idolatry, iconoclasm and the reformation's long legacy / Tabitha Barber -- 1. Religion. Dissolution : the dissolution of the monasteries / Susan Harrison ; Reformation / Richard Williams ; Puritan iconoclasm : monuments of superstition and idolatry / Tabitha Barber -- 2. Politics. Politics and the public space : making and breaking public sculpture, 1688-1929 / M.G. Sullivan ; Suffragettes : the political value of iconoclastic acts / Lena Mohamed -- 3. Aesthetics. Attacks on art / Stacy Boldrick ; Destruction in art : destruction/creation : act or perish / Andrew Wilson ; Art transformed : matter and translation in contemporary art / Stacy Boldrick.