Idoltary and Its Discontents
May 27th, 2009 | By Omer Khalid | Category: Art, Culture and LiteratureAmid rhetorical dust-storms over purported Islamist threats to Western values, Sven Lütticken finds antecedents for contemporary struggles over the image in Judaic and Protestant bans on idolatry. Multiple meanings of the veil and varying forms of iconoclasm, under the aegis of the spectacle.