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200:“The first generation of Protestant publicists and propagandists, the Edwardian generation, made polemical and creative use of cultural vehicles which their spiritual children and grandchildren later repudiated, as part of their rather general programme of rejection. They wrote and staged Protestant plays. They sang Protestant songs and godly ballads to secular and popular tunes. And they made brilliant use of the graphic image, both to attack Catholicism and to commend their own religious convictions and values. These strategies constitute, for my purpose, what is meant by Iconoclasm ... Iconoclasm in this sense may imply the substitution of other, acceptable images, or the refashioning of some images for an altered purpose.” 137:“If iconophobia is defined as the suspicion and anxiety towards the power exerted by images, its history is an ancient one in all of its Platonic, Christian, and Judaic forms. At its most radical, iconophobia results in an act of iconoclasm, or the total destruction of the image. At the other end of the spectrum, contemporary iconophobia may be more subtle. Images are simply withdrawn from circulation with the aim of eliminating their visibility.” 22: 189:. Collinson’s work has shaped a generation of scholarly enquiry into the impact of religion on culture, and of culture on religion, in post-reformation England. Scholars have accepted, rejected, and modified Collinson’s arguments, but one way or another they continue to exert a powerful influence over reformation studies. 204:
Iconophobia, by comparison, is defined as “the total repudiation of all images”, which Collinson associates with a watershed moment around 1580, introducing a “sudden and drastic” change. This “secondary thrust” of reform “came close to dispensing with images and the mimetic altogether, while
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Collinson describes the “age of extreme iconophobia” as “quite short, equivalent to little more than a single generation”. Nevertheless, much subsequent scholarship has suggested that iconophobia characterised post-Reformation Protestantism from 1580 onwards.
165:... Protestant iconophobia had a huge and not exclusively negative impact on aesthetics and the history of art. It permanently affected the ways images were made, exhibited, and judged.” 196:(generally defined as “the destruction of religious icons and other images or monuments for religious or political motives”) in his essay as follows: 320: 266: 161:
in 1517, brought iconophobia to the forefront of contemporary politics... Iconophobia was pushed to its extreme in the teachings of
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The Birthpangs of Protestant England: Religious and Cultural Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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The history of iconophobia begins with ancient Greece and Rome and continues with the
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From Iconoclasm to Iconophobia: the Cultural Impact of the Second English Reformation
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From Iconoclasm to Iconophobia: the Cultural Impact of the Second English Reformation
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that is most associated with iconophobia: “The Protestant Reformation, initiated by
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disparaging the tastes and capacities of the illiterate, the mass of the people”.
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refers to the actual destruction of images that may arise from iconophobia.
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refers to the aversion to or hatred of the images whereas
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Kelly, Michael (1998). "Iconoclasm and Iconophobia".
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Specialty
icons
iconoclasm
Chari Larsson
violent iconoclasms
Eastern Orthodox Church
Byzantine Empire
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
John Calvin
English Protestantism
Patrick Collinson
"Suspicious Images: Iconophobia and the Ethical Gaze"
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
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ISSN
0309-0469


ISBN
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