Research Catalog

Title

Idol anxiety / edited by Josh Ellenbogen and Aaron Tugendhaft.

Publication

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2011], ©2011.

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Additional Authors

• Ellenbogen, Josh
• Tugendhaft, Aaron

Description

ix, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Subject

• Idols and images > Worship
• Idolatry
• Idols and images in art
• Idolatry in art
• Idols and images in literature
• Idolatry in literature
• Art and religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780804760423 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 080476042X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780804760430 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0804760438 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011011025

OCLC

• 710816166
• SCSB-12079861

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library