Iconoclasm Redefined. Attacks on cultural heritage assert that Islam should have authority over any religion’s or culture’s presentation of images. By . Edward Rothstein. Share. Resize.

Despite the wide-ranging call for diversity, is iconoclasm rearing its Medusa head? Share. Resize ‘The Republic’ (1918), by Daniel Chester French Photo: Getty Images.

Iconoclasm in the name of purging a civilization of its evils is not new, Angelo M. Codevilla argues, but it is a defining feature of what he calls “revolutionary totalitarianism”: ...

Notoriously, the current wave of iconoclasm has not always distinguished between (images of) Robert E. Lee and (images of) Ulysses S. Grant, between images of slaveholders and images of abolitionists.

Thank Trump’s Iconoclasm for the ‘Deferred Resignations’ Masterstroke. President Donald Trump speaks at an event at the White House, in Washington, D.C. January 29, 2025.

T he West (so-called Christendom) is confronted with a new menace, a sort of psychedelic mysticism, and is being haunted by the spirit of Zen, a cult of iconoclasm. There is a tendency toward an ...

Iconoclasm is not just an American phenomenon. It’s global. In Canada, a statue of John A MacDonald, the “father of Confederation,” struggled to find a home at his bicentenary in 2015, ...

J. Max Patrick Iconoclasm, the Complement of Utopianism. My text, "Iconoclasm is the complement of utopianism," is an observation made by A.S.P. Woodhouse in Puritanism and Liberty.However, my thesis ...

Indeed, “iconoclasm on a grand scale…was primarily political in motive,” Bleiberg writes in the exhibition catalog for “Striking Power.” Defacing statues aided ambitious rulers ...

From the time of the Reformation, evangelicals have had an uneasy relationship with art, even religiously themed art. In the 1500s, Protestant zealots decided that statues, paintings, even stained ...

Art under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm will open at Tate Britain in October and among the prized objects on show is Statue of the Dead Christ, which lay hidden for 500 years.