Chapter Fifteen Heresy and Iconography: Notes on Carolingian Aesthetics and Its Western Successors
Bruce V. Foltz
The concept of heretical art may seem peculiar, if not altogether misguided. For isn’t all genuine creative and original, revolutionary, unconventional, unorthodox? And the defined precisely in contrast with what is orthodox, i.e. as something contesting it? for its part, thought to be conventional, merely assumed taken granted. task would thus call into question status quo, overthrow comfortable conventions orthodoxies—to be, fact, essentially heretical.
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