The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm - Alain Besancon - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226044132 - May 7, 2001
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Alain Besancon
The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm

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Traces the dual strains of 'iconophilia' and iconoclasm, the privileging and prohibition of religious images, over a span of two-and-a-half millennia in the West. This book addresses arguments regarding the moral authority of the image in European Christianity from the medieval through the early modern periods.

432 pages, 32 halftones

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Released May 7, 2001
ISBN13 9780226044132
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 432
Dimensions 163 × 235 × 30 mm   ·   746 g
Language English  
Translator Todd, Jane Marie

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