Contro le immagini: le radici dell’iconoclastia
María Bettetini
The study presents the various ways and reasons for opposing images, to point of destroying them (iconoclasm). Thus an analysis is offered basic Platonic Augustinian position, turn that Plotinus gave it then perspectives Judaism, Christianity Islam regarding passing through some key historical moments (the Second Council Nicea, Carolingian reaction, Reformation French Revolution) arriving at a hypothesis about contemporary civilisation, according which sheer mass images tends rob visibility meaningfulness, in sort ‘light’ iconoclasm coexists with forms vandalism ideological extremism.
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