(n.) The doctrine or practice of the iconoclasts; image breaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) And when they do that in high dudgeon, they invite iconoclasm – something fashion has proved adept at for just as long.
(2) And surviving that moment of iconoclasm early on 9 May , the personification of Labour’s failure.
(3) It is true that some recent exhibitions have had particularly bad reviews, such as one on iconoclasm, Art Under Attack, which was Curtis's idea.
(4) Her combination of self-belief and iconoclasm was evident as soon as she joined the house, 27 years ago.
(5) But the originality, vigour and iconoclasm of his book make certain that it will endure.
(6) If he were really so in love with iconoclasm, he could maybe have a spoof rap about a black gentleman.
(7) Much of his appeal lies in his iconoclasm: in his 1998 book Foundations of Economics, a kind of bible for the growing alternative economics movement, he cites the British Keynesian Joan Robinson : “The purpose of studying economics is to learn how not to be deceived by economists.” But what can we expect from this reluctant economist and reluctant politician intellectually?
(8) Results suggested that different forms of graffiti could be interpreted from five characterizations of early adolescent personality: sexual maturity, self-identity, idealism, iconoclasm, and rebelliousness.
(9) It will become the focus for political mobilisation, the icon of political iconoclasm recast herself as victim of the iconoclasts.
(10) Despite, or perhaps because of, his iconoclasm, his tendency to contradict himself, and his general political incorrectness – which may, one suspects, be more mischievous than heartfelt – Žižek is to today what Jacques Derrida was to the 80s: the thinker of choice for Europe's young intellectual vanguard.
(11) Indeed, for all its anarchy and iconoclasm, the show was still a comfortably white, middle-class proposition that dealt with the familiar baby-boomer touchstones of university life and liberal politics.
(12) He compares the iconoclasm of the English Reformation, when hundreds of medieval carvings of saints and angels in the cathedral were decapitated, stained glass shattered, and acres of wall paintings destroyed, leaving only a few survivors in the crypt, to images of a smashed Starbucks window, the destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, and a defaced image of Colonel Gaddafi.
(13) The Daily Telegraph's Richard Dorment wrote: "When some bright spark at Tate Britain came up with the idea of doing a show about the history of iconoclasm in this country, why wasn't the plan strangled at birth?"
(14) It’s his celebrity.” Phillip Carter, who researches sociolinguistics at Florida International University, and has a chapter on Trump and Hillary Clinton in a forthcoming book, said Trump’s iconoclasm, New York accent and inappropriate language could seem rebellious to white, monolingual boys.
(15) Both religions promoted iconoclasm in the service of one God.
(16) But there is iconoclasm lurking under every one-liner.
Iconography
Definition:
(n.) The art or representation by pictures or images; the description or study of portraiture or representation, as of persons; as, the iconography of the ancients.
(n.) The study of representative art in general.
Example Sentences:
(1) The bench rejected the petition seeking prosecution for offending Hindus, saying it was a work of art and citing India's tradition of graphic sexual iconography.
(2) Often, Hofer’s flirtation with the iconography and language of the National Socialist movement has been far from covert.
(3) Filled with classic British gangster-movie iconography – hard London faces hung upside-down from meathooks, the stock-car pile-up – The Long Good Friday is also a grownup, despairing look at Britain on the edge of an economic and political precipice.
(4) This is what the iconography in Roman and Christian charity confirms.
(5) The eleven cases are reviewed and a classification supported by an iconography is given, according to the unstability of the odontoid or of the pedicles.
(6) And yet despite the iconography of her glacial portraits and the tales of wicked Sir Oswald, Britain's only significant fascist (and, in case it should be forgotten, previously a leading light in the MacDonald-era Labour party), Lady Mosley's real significance rests on her supporting role in a much grander tableau: the story of the Mitford girls and the 80-year sway that they have exerted over upper-level English society.
(7) When questioned about this iconography of one of the 20th-century’s worst mass murderers, he conceded that Mao had “probably” been a monster, but added: “We will be arguing about this to the end of time.” In a sense, Briggs remained marooned in the optimistic period of his prime – the 40s to the 60s – a believer above all in what he called in one of his best books The Age of Improvement (1959).
(8) With the help of an iconography they describe the possible anatomical variations according with the surgical possibilities.
(9) That’s not to say I’m not proud of my work, but the fact is I remember starting to shoot Super 8 and Star Trek Into Darkness and feeling like I hadn’t really solved some fundamental story problems.” The film-maker revealed that changes to well-known Star Wars iconography, such as C-3PO sporting a new red arm, and the Millennium Falcon now featuring a rectacular radar dish, were designed to convey a sense of the time that had passed since the events of Return of the Jedi.
(10) The band is famously subversive, with an ironic tone and use of political imagery including, most controversially, fascist iconography – while at the same time collaborating with anti-fascist artists .
(11) Not, perhaps, for its dogma, but for its iconography, its traditions, its teachings.
(12) Review of a very well documented case with a very complete iconography, and of the literature led to the following conclusions.
(13) The decision as to whether anticoagulant treatment should be instituted must be based on the certitude of the diagnosis, and this can be obtained in an atraumatic manner by ultrasonography of the popliteal fossa as shown by iconography.
(14) He cites the “grammar” of Islamic art “that underpins the whole of life”, the “magical” rhythms of gardens and nature, the timelessness of Christian iconography and the symmetry of 16th-century German astronomy, Thomas Aquinas’s “eternal law”, the Vedic traditions of India, and Chinese Daoism.
(15) But for all their invocations of the rich precedents of nudity in India's art history and religious iconography, Husain's defenders could do little to stem the tide of attacks – notably over the internet – on more and more of his images.
(16) The only rival to the toilet bowl for campaign iconography has been a statue of Hendrik Verwoerd, reviled architect of racial apartheid, in another DA-run municipality that the party holds up as a showcase of good governance.
(17) This principle of "two units combining to form one", this unification of two opposing and complementary principles has been depicted in a model manner in the iconography of Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism.
(18) The banners outside have tantalised people by showing iconography that they insist looks "flat".
(19) She has always been a subject we’ve been fascinated by and she has appeared in a few of our previous exhibitions but there’s never really been one exhibition entirely devoted to her iconography.
(20) By creating a colourful link with the iconography of the nation, Mas hopes to make an indissoluble connection between himself and the essence of being Catalan.