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The destruction of art : iconoclasm and vandalism since the French Revolution / Dario Gamboni.
- Title
- The destruction of art : iconoclasm and vandalism since the French Revolution / Dario Gamboni.
- Author
- Gamboni, Dario.
- Publication
- London : Reaktion, 2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N8557 .G36 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 416 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Picturing history
- Uniform Title
- Picturing history.
- Alternative Title
- Iconoclasm and vandalism since the French Revolution
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published, 1997.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Theories and methods -- A historical outline -- The fall of the "Communist monuments" -- Political iconoclasm in democratic societies -- Outside the first world -- Iconoclasm and multiplication -- Free art and the "free world" -- Legal abuse -- The degradation of art in public places -- Museums and pathology -- "Embellishing vandalism" -- Reformations of church art -- Modern art and iconoclasm -- Mistaking art for refuse -- Disqualification and heritage.
- ISBN
- 9781861893161 (pbk.)
- 1861893167 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 74525863
- SCSB-12326229
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library