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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"iconoclasm"”.
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Iconoclasm in modern British drama
Iconoclasm has proved to be a major feature in modern British drama, where in a short period of time, the theatre has witnessed a host of iconoclastic dramatists, where demythologization has been widespread and fierce and where the icons of the present and the past have been subjected to a …
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Puritan iconoclasm : its origin and motivation
The thesis examines the debate about iconoclasm during the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth century by tracing the development of iconoclastic thought from the conflict between Martin Luther and Andreas Bodenstein von Carlstadt (1521/22) through the Swiss Reformers and Jean …
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The Functions of Colour in the Age of Iconoclasm, ca. 691—867
… towards Christ’s appearance before and after iconoclasm. This scope also explains the thesis’ terminal points of 691 and 867; respectively the first major Church Council ruling on images, and the first public inauguration of an icon since 843. They allow the thesis to explore the wider …
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Iconoclasm, Protestant Aesthetics, and the Meaning of Making in Early Modern England, 1550–1600
… The fourth and final chapter engages with iconoclasm as part of a Protestant aesthetic – a complex and paradoxical phenomenon blending breaking and making. Here, I will attempt to unpack some of the creative implications inherent in the destruction of art. Namely, that the act of tearing …
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Conceptualizing Ideoclasm: Monument Removal Through an Iconoclastic Lens
… seeks to explore and expand upon the concept of iconoclasm by suggesting a new term to encapsulate the physical and rhetorical work of icon denial: ideoclasm. As a form of resistance to the perpetuation and celebration of an ideology, the physical breaking of a signifier or icon – iconoclasm – …
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Genital sensation: abrasive bodies in feminist performance
… of sex, difference, cultural assumptions and iconoclasm through feminist employment of this explicitly marked body. This text, divided into investigations of the disruptive body, considers the cultural iconoclasm of cunt art and phallocentric exclusion of women via the work of Irigaray (1996) …
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Faire Semblants and Scandalous Worship: Iconophobia and the English Renaissance
… of cherished loved ones made the metaphor of iconoclasm a powerful engine for transforming human affection into acts of organized violence. This fundamentalist rhetoric, and the language of toleration that developed in response to it, are the subjects of this dissertation, which considers …
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The story we tell our-selves: renegotiating Fascist Heritage in post-dictatorial Italy
… simply material traces of a once-glorious past. Iconoclasm expresses the need to challenge and publicly question former values, but it fails to interrogate the issue of monumentality, which remains a formidable presence in public spaces. Heritage scholars must find new ways to reframe monuments …
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Bulgarian Contribution in Building the Byzantine Commonwealth in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.
… Byzantine cultural expansion followed declining Iconoclasm were the main prerequisite factors for the establishment of a Slavonic literature tradition.</p>
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Between silence and speech : mystical experience in contemporary women's writing
… bodily "openings": the imageries of apocalypse,iconoclasm and wounding.The thesis begins from the inspiration and legacy of the medieval womenmystics, and identifies the classical tropes and movements that are employed incontemporary reflections upon mystical "lives." The medieval biographies of …
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Seeing the World through Marcus zum Lamm’s Thesaurus Picturarum, c. 1564–1606
… far too long considered a culture of texts and iconoclasm. I question this historiographical tradition by demonstrating how the confessionalisation of humanist scholarship can be investigated through a Reformed courtier’s collection of images and, by analysing his choice of images and the themes …
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A saga of black deglorification : the disfigurement of Africa in Ayi Kwei Armah's novels
… creative impulse from demonic anger and cynical iconoclasm and is triggered by the mind-shattering disillusion that followed independence. The proclivity towards tyranny and the exploitation of the ruled in modern Africa is traced by radical African creative writers to an ancient source : the …
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The Fire Image in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
… were made from time to time, notably in the iconoclasm of the eighth and ninth centuries, the image remained securely established in western man’s society, religion, and literature until the seventeenth century. At that time it suffered a severe dislodging. Various writers have tried to …
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Skin flicks
… anything other than skin through a discussion of iconoclasm and its relation to some contemporary critical practices in the arts.
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'Lawrels for the Conquered' : the dilemmas of William Davenant and Abraham Cowley in the revolutionary decades of the seventeenth century.
… political waverings in the face of republican iconoclasm. Where English history is customarily squeamish about the idea of political collaboration, the dissertation examines how Davenant and Cowley vacillated between the desire to remain in the royalist literary underground and the temptation …
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When the carnival is over : Peter Barnes' Red Noses and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin
… but this begs the question as to whether Barnes' iconoclasm is conservative or radical. Is there a reaffirming of the hierarchies of social and political power as a result of the upside-down world created in Red Noses, or is there the promise of a new and ongoing process of change? The object of …
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The fresco cycle in the Lombard Church of Santa Maria di Castelseprio
… of an artistic tradition which developed before iconoclasm and was adopted in the West, as Eastern influences were spreading into Italy, in the seventh and eighth centuries. Examples of those influences are seen in Rome, namely in the works commissioned by the Eastern popes, particularly John VII …
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Graffiti as counter-cartography: street art and the cartographic legacy in Bogotá, Colombia
… and crime, Armando Silva focused on its value as iconoclasm, and others have considered urban art as an instrument of representation for hip hop or youth sub culture. Henri Lefebvre, Edward Soja and urban theorists consider the relationship between space in itself (physical/geographical) and …
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Michael Daugherty's Red Cape Tango: A Comparative Study of the Original Version for Symphony Orchestra and its Transcription for Wind Orchestra, with Four Recitals of Selected Works by Beethoven, Dvorák, Verdi, Bartók and Daugherty
Michael Daugherty has created his niche in the music world by composing works inspired by icons of American popular culture. Red Cape Tango is the final movement of his Metropolis Symphony, a work inspired by the life and times of the comic book character Superman. This movement in particular deals …
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The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
In contrast to the richly visual literature of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, the period’s visual art is usually seen as impoverished. Historians have emphasised the views of Protestant divines, for whom images were ‘dead and dumb’, and have focused on the limitations placed …
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