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Triumph and Trauma of Images: A Journey Into Art History, Iconoclasm, Cult Controversy and Remembrance Culture

Triumph and Trauma of Images: A Journey Into Art History, Iconoclasm, Cult Controversy and Remembrance Culture

Picard, Jacques

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryArt HistoryEuropean Art

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ISBN10: 3422802916
ISBN13: 9783422802919
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag
Published: May 31 2025
Pages: 424
Weight: 2.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

What humankind consider to be truths does not enter our world naked. Rather, it was and is expressed in symbols, images, archetypes and role models. As an ingredient of emotions of religious, cultic or collective orders, art and artists in particular played an important role in the transformation of our world. To be tainted by the stigma of cult and idolatry, or to enable life and works of art through the incarnation of ideas and visions - such contradictions continue to this day in the dispute over the power of images. Their triumph as a mark of sovereignty goes hand in hand with the trauma they trigger in both individuals and communities. They evoke the horror and the sacred and banish both at the same time. They are attributed a cultic aura and likewise suspected of being a false fetish in a world of globally traded commodities. From antiquity to modernity, these facets and tensions are critically explored in Judaism, Christianity and Islam as well as in philosophical discourses and secular ways of life. Our cultural history refers the viewer to the democratic or authoritarian present. Images of hope and resurrection, the fall into hell of war and the abys of the Holocaust are significant for human memory in art and media today and they require our reflection.

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