Word: iconoclasm
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...century, Western art lay largely under the influence of Byzantium, whose hovering saints were stripped of flesh, transcendentally vaporous, symbols of life beyond death. So otherworldly was Byzantine art that by the time Charlemagne was crowned, images of the sacred figures had been banned for 74 years. Eastern iconoclasm had emphatically blotted out the Greco-Roman exaltation of living man. The new Carolingian Emperor personally set about to change the art of his times...
Judith strips myth down to Freudian psychology and debunks belief with Shavian iconoclasm-the tactics by which modern man burglarizes himself of an agelong heritage of mystery. In this 34-year-old play, revived by APA-at-the-Phoenix, the late French Playwright Jean Giraudoux, an urbane, witty, and ironic second-story man of ideas, remains true to his dramatic creed: Be clever and let who will be good...
Radical Thoughts. Dr. Menninger came by both his iconoclasm and his optimism early in his career. As a student at Harvard Medical School he reproached his psychiatry professor: "What's the use? You give nearly every patient the same diagnosis, dementia praecox, and the treatment seems to be merely committing them to the nearest state hospital." That was in 1915, and only three years later, at Boston Psychopathic Hospital, the young Dr. Menninger found that "dementia praecox" had already gone out of fashion; the new label was "schizophrenia." But under any name the condition was still considered hopeless. Then...
...Jane Austen, if they allowed her to die a natural death." There is a large, timid, hardly vocal class of people who feel the same way about Henry James. Those who have struggled unhappily through the lessons of the Master will find comfort at last in the breezy iconoclasm of Maxwell Geismar's Henry James and the Jacobites...
...time is, ironically, a bitter attack on the most sacred event in Mexican history: the 1910 Revolution. It takes an exceptional writer to go against his native grain and still be popular. But Mariano Azuela wrote The Underdogs with such unsparing honesty that he was forgiven his iconoclasm. Few novels have so fiercely proclaimed that war, revolution included, is hell...