Word: iconophobia
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...Iconophobia is fear of images, and Clark, who produced and moderated the "Civilization" series for BBC, is thinking of writing a book...
Clark traced the beginning of Iconophobia to the second commandment prohibiting the creation of graven images. "People have continued to make images of living things in accord with the human instinct," Clark noted...
Clark continued undaunted, however, tracing the history of iconophobia from Hebrew times through the Greek Orthodox rebellion and the Reformation to the present...
...Iconophobia is frequently the rejection by an unsettled society of the images of an established society." Clark said. "It has been associated with revolution and has frequently turned into vandalism...
Clark, who is the author of many books on art history including The Gothic Revival and The Nude, said that ours is an age of iconophobia, in which representational art is out and abstract...