LibGuides: Christianity and the Visual Arts: Iconoclasm

Iconoclasm

Secondary Literature:

Iconoclasm and Iconoclash edited by Willem van Asselt, Paul van Geest, Daniela Müller, and Theo Salemink
Focuses on iconoclasm controversies and how iconoclasm impacts the creation of religious identities.
A Storm of Images by Philip Jenkins
Specifically for Byzantine iconoclasm (8th century).
Idol Anxiety edited by Josh Ellenbogen and Aaron Tugendhaft
Collection of essays from scholars in a variety of fields on idolatry. "Iconoclasm and the Sublime: Two Implicit Religious Discourses in Art History" (chapter 8) is particularly useful.
Image and Presence by Natalie Carnes
"Joining a growing multidisciplinary conversation that rejects an understanding of images as lifeless objects, this book offers a theological meditation on the ways images convey presence into our world." A modern take on iconoclasm.

Primary Sources:

Three Treatises on the Divine Images by St John Of Damascus
Call Number: BR 65 .J63 O513 2003
St. John of Damascus provides the classic theological defense of using icons and images in Christian worship.
Theodore the Studite: Writings on Iconoclasm
Call Number: BR 60 .A35 no.69
Like John of Damascus, Theodore the Studite was one of the foremost defenders of icons during the Byzantine Iconoclast controversy.
A Reformation Debate: Karlstadt, Emser, and Eck on Sacred Images
Call Number: BR 355 .I35 R44 1998
Translations of the major Reformation-era works for/against Icons by Karlstadt and Eck.

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