Iconoclasm and the Museum

ISBN-13: 9781138369689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 196 str.

Stacy Boldrick

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Stacy Boldrick is Lecturer and Programme Director for the MA in Art Museum and Gallery Studies in the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.