Idol anxiety
By: edited by Josh Ellenbogen and Aaron Tugendhaft
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780804760423; 9780804760430
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Art and religion; Idols and images; Idols and images in literature; Idolatry in literature; Idols and images in art; Idolatry; Idolatry in art; Worship
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What's wrong with images? / Jan Assmann; title: The Christian critique of idolatry / Marc Fumaroli; title: The painter's breath and concepts of idol anxiety in Islamic art / Mika Natif; title: Idolatry : Nietzsche, Blake, and Poussin / W.J.T. Mitchell; title: Dreadful beauty and the undoing of adulation in the work of Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles / Rachael Ziady DeLue; title: Iconoclasm and real space / David Summers; title: How many ways can you idolize a song? / Rose Rosengard Subotnik; title: Iconoclasm and the sublime : two implicit religious discourses in art history / James Elkins; title: What we see and what appears / Jean-Luc Marion; title: On Heidegger, the idol, and the work of the work of art / Daniel Doneson; title: Beyond instrumentalism and voluntarism : idol anxiety and the awakening of a philosophical mood / Daniel Silver.