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Course name
The Destruction of Images
Institution
Temple University
Instructor
Joseph Kopta
Wikipedia Expert
Brianda (Wiki Ed)
Subject
Art History
Course dates
2024-01-17 00:00:00 UTC – 2024-06-24 23:59:59 UTC
Approximate number of student editors
20


This course explores the phenomenon of iconoclasm throughout history as a series of case studies exploring various political, religious, and artistic-driven image destruction. The majority of the class will consider Byzantine iconoclasm in the eighth and ninth centuries, while also examining damnatio memoriae in ancient Rome; Beeldenstorm in sixteenth-century Europe; destruction of kingly imagery during the French Revolution; Buddhist ritual dissolution of sand mandalas; early Islamic attitudes to images; and 20th-century artistic interventions. These historical examples will be framed with the context of contemporary debates, especially the recent toppling of confederate monuments in the United States. Students will be revising (or, in a few cases, possibly creating) existing Wikipedia entries on works of art or architecture that have undergone, or reference, some form of iconoclasm.

Student Assigned Reviewing
Soniakilcoyne Kintsugi Futurism, Palimpsest, Vandalism
Llgilpin03 John Baldessari Aniconism in Judaism, Sensation (art exhibition), Kintsugi
KaelBanks Iconophobia Aniconism in Judaism, Vandalism, Sand drawing
Clfavor2 Sgraffito
Tuo68169 Vandalism Sgraffito, Aniconism in Judaism, Futurism
Amir Rafeh Futurism Aniconism in Judaism, Palimpsest, Kintsugi
Tun97369 Sensation (art exhibition)
Tun73436 Graffiti Pier Philadelphia
Tuq44473 Nehushtan
Tmc9 Sand drawing Vandalism
JackFisher3503 Cai Guo-Qiang Vandalism, Sand drawing, Graffiti Pier Philadelphia
Marsrettew Die Brücke
Winicummings
KyreTia Sgraffito, Cai Guo-Qiang, Sensation (art exhibition)
Siennatompkins$ Mandala
Lauteur02 Palimpsest Futurism, Kintsugi, Vandalism
Tul10616 Aniconism in Judaism Iconophobia, Palimpsest, John Baldessari
Albertinap Byzantine Iconoclasm
Trancerave2011