Iconoclasm, speculative realism, and sympathetic magic:
In the current American iconoclash, certain monuments are subject to vandalism and municipal removal from their pedestals. Phrases such as "the erasure of history" and "damnatio memoriae" point to concerns that iconoclasm is an attempt to censor history or even remove certain ind...
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Zusammenfassung: | In the current American iconoclash, certain monuments are subject to vandalism and municipal removal from their pedestals. Phrases such as "the erasure of history" and "damnatio memoriae" point to concerns that iconoclasm is an attempt to censor history or even remove certain individuals from public memory altogether. Because these phrases beckon the past, this wave of iconoclasm calls for a close examination of previous image-breaking to establish motives. Drawing first from art history, we analyze Byzantine iconoclasm and anxieties over the nature of icons’ power, before contextualizing these findings within image destruction from the Paleolithic to the present day. Each comparison is suggestive of an enduring aesthetic principle: that what appears inanimate is not always inert. Next, drawing from cultural anthropology, we argue that principles of sympathetic magic are at the heart of contemporary iconoclasms, but not in the way media outlets often suggest. Instead, the fear of history’s erasure betrays a deeply rooted equivalence between the representation and the represented. In perceiving their fates as shared, sympathetic magic is seen to persist in the way humans create, interpret, and desecrate images. We conclude with the speculative realist proposition that iconoclasm can produce new, original artworks, which carries implications for the autonomy of art and its distribution between artist and artwork. |
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