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Art under attack : histories of British iconoclasm / Tabitha Barber and Stacy Boldrick.

By: Barber, Tabitha [author.]Contributor(s): Boldrick, Stacy [contributor.] | Tate Britain (Gallery) [host institution.]Publisher: London : Tate Publishing, 2013Description: 187 p. : ill. ; 28 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849760300; 1849760306Subject(s): Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. -- Great Britain -- History -- Exhibitions | Iconoclasm -- Great Britain -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 700.103 LOC classification: N8557 | .A78 2013
Contents:
Introduction / Tabitha Barber and Stacy Boldrick -- Iconoclasms past and present : conflict and art / Stacy Boldrick -- Idolatry, iconoclasm and the reformation's long legacy / Tabitha Barber -- 1. Religion. Dissolution : the dissolution of the monastries / Susan Harrison ; Reformation / Richard Williams ; Puritan iconoclasm : monuments of superstition and idolatry / Tabitha Barber -- 2. Politics. Politics and the public space : making and breaking public sculpture, 1688-1929 / M.G. Sullivan ; Suffragettes : the political value of iconoclastic acts / Lena Mohamed -- 3. Aesthetics. Attacks on art / Stacy Boldrick ; Destruction in art : destruction/creation : act or perish / Andrew Wilson ; Art transformed : matter and translation in contemporary art / Stacy Boldrick
Summary: This fully illustrated catalogue explores the history of attacks on art in Britain, from the reformation of the 16th century to the present day, demonstrating how religious, political, moral and aesthetic controversy can become arenas for assaults on art.
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Published to accompany the exhibition held at Tate Britain, 2nd October 2013-5th January 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Tabitha Barber and Stacy Boldrick -- Iconoclasms past and present : conflict and art / Stacy Boldrick -- Idolatry, iconoclasm and the reformation's long legacy / Tabitha Barber -- 1. Religion. Dissolution : the dissolution of the monastries / Susan Harrison ; Reformation / Richard Williams ; Puritan iconoclasm : monuments of superstition and idolatry / Tabitha Barber -- 2. Politics. Politics and the public space : making and breaking public sculpture, 1688-1929 / M.G. Sullivan ; Suffragettes : the political value of iconoclastic acts / Lena Mohamed -- 3. Aesthetics. Attacks on art / Stacy Boldrick ; Destruction in art : destruction/creation : act or perish / Andrew Wilson ; Art transformed : matter and translation in contemporary art / Stacy Boldrick

This fully illustrated catalogue explores the history of attacks on art in Britain, from the reformation of the 16th century to the present day, demonstrating how religious, political, moral and aesthetic controversy can become arenas for assaults on art.

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