The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm by Alain Besançon, Jane Marie Todd

The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm

Alain Besançon, Jane Marie Todd

432 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction art philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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 Philosophers and theologians have long engaged in intense debate and introspection over the representation of the deity, its possibilities and its proscriptions. The Forbidden Image traces the dual strains of “iconophilia” and iconoclasm, the pri...

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