Sessions 25 and 26: Iconoclasts of the Present

Flood, Finbarr Barry. 2002. Between cult and culture: Bamiyan, Islamic iconoclasm and the museum.

Muller, Marion G. and Esra Ozcan. 2007. The political iconography of Muhammad cartoons.

Starrett, Gregory. 2006. Cartoon violence and a clash of civilization.

Huyssen, Andreas. 2002. Twin memories: afterimages of nine/eleven.

Centlivres, Pierre. 2002. Life, death, and eternity of the Buddhas in Afghanistan.

Lucas, Catherine. 2002. The hidden Imam.

Frodon, Jean-Michel. 2002. The war of images, or the Bamiyan paradox.

Comments to be posted by evening of Monday, Dec. 1.

Sessions 23 and 24: Iconoclasts of the past

Bahrani, Zainab. 2003. Decoys and lures: substitution and the uncanny double of the king. In The Graven Image.

Flood, Finbarr B. 2005. Refiguring iconoclasm in the early Indian mosque. In Negating the Image.

Konchok, Pema. 2002. Buddhism as a focus of iconoclash in Asia. In Iconoclash.

Wilson, Penelope. 2005. Naming names and shifting identities in ancient Egyptian iconoclasm. In Negating the Image. 

Comments to be posted by evening of Monday, Nov. 24.

Session 22: Critique as Iconoclasm

Latour, Bruno. 2004. Why has critique run out of steam? From matters of fact to matters of concern. Critical Inquiry 30(2):225-48.

Comments to be posted by evening of Nov. 17.

Sessions 20 + 21: Defacement and Refacement

Latour, Bruno. 2002. What is iconoclash? Or is there a world beyond the image wars? In Iconoclash.

Taussig, Michael. 1998. Crossing the face. In Border Fetishisms.

Comments to be posted by evening of November 12.

Sessions 18 + 19: Offending Images

Freedberg, David. 1989. Idolatry and iconoclasm. In The Power of Images.

Mitchell, W. J. Thomas. 2005. Offending images. In What Do Pictures Want?

Mitchell, W. J. Thomas. 2005. Totemism, fetishism, idolatry. In What Do Pictures Want?

Comments to be posted by evening of November 5.

Session 16: Vital Signs in Antiquity I

Freedberg, David. 1989. The god in the image. In The Power of Images, pp. 27-40.

Freedberg, David. 1989. Consecration: making images work. In The Power of Images, pp. 82-98.

Comments to be posted by evening of October 22.

Sessions 12-13: Domesticated Images, Part II

Lewis-Williams, David and David Pearce. 2005. Inside the Neolithic Mind. Thames and Hudson, London.

Comments to be posted by evening of October 15.