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Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel; [translators, Charlotte Bigg ... et al.] is a art available to read on EtoBox.

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This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Center for New Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, invokes three disparate realms in which images have assumed the role of cultural weapons. Monotheistic religions, scientific theories, and contemporary arts have struggled with the contradictory urge to produce and also destroy images and emblems. Moving beyond the image wars, "ICONOCLASH" shows that image destruction has always coexisted with a cascade of image production, visible in traditional Christian images as well as in scientific laboratories and the various experiments of contemporary art, music, cinema, and architecture.While iconoclasts have struggled against icon worshippers, another history of "iconophily" has always been at work. Investigating this alternative to the Western obsession with image worship and destruction allows useful comparisons with other cultures, in which images play a very different role. "ICONOCLASH" offers a variety of experiments on how to "suspend" the iconoclastic gesture and to renew the movement of images against any freeze-framing.The book includes major works by Art & Language, Willi Baumeister, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren

Who reads Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art?

Author

Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel; [translators, Charlotte Bigg ... et al.]

Publisher

ZKM, Centre for Art and Media; MIT Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780262621724

Category

art

Subjects

Philosophy, Sociology, History

Rating

4.14 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14