Iconoclasm as discourse: from Antiquity to Byzantium

• Autores: Jas Elsner
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 94, Nº 3, 2012, págs. 368-394
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Iconoclasm was an attack on the real presence of the depicted prototype through assault on the image. Iconophile and iconoclast thinkers in the eighth century, for the first time, considered the image entirely as representation. A transformative moment in the discourse of images, it liberated the image from an emphasis on ontology to place it in an epistemological relation to its referent. The impulse to rethink the meanings of images emerged from debates within pre-Christian culture, between Christians and pagans, and between Christians, Jews, and Muslims, deeply influencing the understanding of images in the later Middle Ages and the Reformation.