Taliban Iconoclasm

[Dave Monroe]

Saw that in the paper, very interesting.  Iconoclasm
is one of those things I spent a little time on myself
in my English Renaissance days, do see ...

Gilman, Ernest B.   Iconoclasm and Poetry
   in the English Reformation: Down Went Dagon.
   Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.

Phillips, John R.  The Reformation of Images:
   Destruction of Art in England, 1535-1669.
   Berekeley: U of California P, 1973.

And here's a few recent titles that came up that I'm
not familiar with, but will apparently have to look
into now as well ...

Besancon, Alan.  The Forbidden Image:
   An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm.
   Trans.  Jane Marie Todd.  Chicago:
   U of Chicago P, 2000.

Cable, Lana.  Carnal Rhetoric: Milton's
   Iconoclasm and the Poetics of Desire.
   Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1995.

Gamboni, Dario.  The Destruction of Art:
   Iconoclasm and Vandalism since the French
   Revolution.  New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1997.

Gross, Kennneth.  Spenserian Poetics:
   Idolatry, Iconoclasm and Magic.
   Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1985.

Loewenstein, David.   Milton and the Drama
   of History: Historical Vision, Iconoclasm
   and the Literary Imagination.  New York:
   Cambridge UP, 1990.

O'Connell, Michael.   The Idolatrous Eye:
   Iconoclasm and Theater in Early-Modern
   England.  New York: Oxford UP, 1999.

Wandel, Lee Palmer.  Voracious Idols and
   Violent Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation
   Zurich, Strasbourg, and Basel.  New York:
   Cambridge UP, 1995.

But my understanding is that this Taliban iconoclasm
is a radical mutation for Islam, which, while it
doesn't promulgate iconology, doesn't have a history
of violent reaction to it, either.  I do recall a film
about the life of Mohammed which never quite depicted
teh Prophet, but ...








--- jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Annan Says Taliban Confirmed Destruction of Statues
> 
> (One can only imagine the smile playing across the
> lips of the sublime
> Buddha.)
> 
> jody
> 


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