Under the hammer : iconoclasm in the Anglo-American tradition / James Simpson.

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 i...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Simpson, James
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:	Clarendon lectures in English.
Subjects:	Art, English > 16th century. Art, English > 17th century. Iconoclasm in art. Iconoclasm. Art, English.