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Idol Anxiety.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (258 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804781817
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Idol AnxietyDDC classification:
  • 202/.18
LOC classification:
  • BL485
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' Statement -- Introduction -- 1: What's Wrong with Images? -- 2: The Christian Critique of Idolatry -- 3: The Painter's Breath and Concepts of Idol Anxiety in Islamic Art -- 4: Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, and Poussin -- 5: Dreadful Beauty and the Undoing of Adulation in the Work of Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles -- 6: Iconoclasm and Real Space -- 7: How Many Ways Can You Idolize a Song? -- 8: Iconoclasm and the Sublime: Two Implicit Religious Discourses in Art History -- 9: What We See and What Appears -- 10: On Heidegger, the Idol, and the Work of the Work of Art -- 11: Beyond Instrumentalism and Voluntarism: Idol Anxiety and the Awakening of a Philosophical Mood -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: This interdisciplinary collection of essays on idolatry, including both historical and theoretical contributions, shows that the concept of idolatry is helpful for all who study the ways that people interact with and conceive of the things around them.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' Statement -- Introduction -- 1: What's Wrong with Images? -- 2: The Christian Critique of Idolatry -- 3: The Painter's Breath and Concepts of Idol Anxiety in Islamic Art -- 4: Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, and Poussin -- 5: Dreadful Beauty and the Undoing of Adulation in the Work of Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles -- 6: Iconoclasm and Real Space -- 7: How Many Ways Can You Idolize a Song? -- 8: Iconoclasm and the Sublime: Two Implicit Religious Discourses in Art History -- 9: What We See and What Appears -- 10: On Heidegger, the Idol, and the Work of the Work of Art -- 11: Beyond Instrumentalism and Voluntarism: Idol Anxiety and the Awakening of a Philosophical Mood -- Notes -- Index.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays on idolatry, including both historical and theoretical contributions, shows that the concept of idolatry is helpful for all who study the ways that people interact with and conceive of the things around them.

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