Conceptualizing Ideoclasm: Monument Removal Through an Iconoclastic Lens
Haley Catherine Menard
This paper seeks to explore and expand upon the concept of iconoclasm by suggesting a new term encapsulate physical rhetorical work icon denial: ideoclasm. As form resistance perpetuation celebration an ideology, breaking signifier or – can serve as part process advocating for larger cultural change. Through survey events in history iconoclasm, we understand significance other forms ‘breaking’. Conceptualizing ideoclasm this way allows reconsideration who has iconoclastic agency denial icon, since they no longer have be enacting destruction. is strikingly relevant contemporary monument removal movements where advocates positioned performers even if not achieved performed official authorities.