Idol anxiety

Idol anxiety [electronic resource] / edited by Josh Ellenbogen and Aaron Tugendhaft. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (ix, 242 p.) : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What's wrong with images? / Jan Assmann -- The Christian critique of idolatry / Marc Fumaroli -- The painter's breath and concepts of idol anxiety in Islamic art / Mika Natif -- Idolatry : Nietzsche, Blake, and Poussin / W.J.T. Mitchell -- Dreadful beauty and the undoing of adulation in the work of Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles / Rachael Ziady DeLue -- Iconoclasm and real space / David Summers -- How many ways can you idolize a song? / Rose Rosengard Subotnik -- Iconoclasm and the sublime : two implicit religious discourses in art history / James Elkins -- What we see and what appears / Jean-Luc Marion -- On Heidegger, the idol, and the work of the work of art / Daniel Doneson -- Beyond instrumentalism and voluntarism : idol anxiety and the awakening of a philosophical mood / Daniel Silver.

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Idols and images--Worship.
Idolatry.
Idols and images in art.
Idolatry in art.
Idols and images in literature.
Idolatry in literature.
Art and religion.
RELIGION / Christianity / General
RELIGION / Theology
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Gaia & Earth Energies


Electronic books.

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