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The Art History Babes

AHB Classic: Smashin' & Slashin' : The Art of Iconoclasm

The Art History Babes

Recorded History Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Visual Arts, History, Education, Arts

4.4852 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Religious belief, political dissent, a desire to "warm up a cold painting". All of these are given motives for destroying artwork. Join the Babes as they discuss the various layers of iconoclasm spanning from the religious icons of Byzantium to the "Punched Monet" of 2012. Originally Released October 8th, 2017 Order the Honest Art Dictionary: https://www.arthistorybabes.com/get-our-book Brendan Dalton: https://www.brendan-dalton.com/ AHB YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheArtHistoryBabes Patreon: www.patreon.com/arthistorybabes Website: www.arthistorybabes.com Insta: @arthistorybabespodcast Tiktok: @arthistorybabes Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hi, everyone. First off, happy new year. Happy 2021. We have a reboot episode for you today. This was

0:52.7

originally released October of 2017.

0:56.0

A lot has happened since the recording of this episode that has put the destruction of art,

1:01.0

statues at the forefront of our minds, especially here in America. So we will likely do an updated episode or maybe an episode focusing more on those ideas in a

1:12.0

contemporary political context at some point, but there's still a lot of good theoretical concepts

1:18.1

surrounding the destruction of art in this episode. So hopefully you enjoy that. Also, if you want

1:26.4

to help us get to our first goal of being able to

1:32.1

release new content every week, head on over to our Patreon. Patreon.com slash art history babes.

1:39.5

There's all kinds of fun bonus content over there. We've got lots of bonus podcast episodes. We're

1:46.8

starting to do some vlogs and reflections. We have our book club. There's also opportunities

1:52.8

for like Zoom hangs with us, the Art History Babes. So yeah, head over to patreon.com slash

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art history babes. We're about 65% to our first goal. Once we get there, then we can guarantee content every week. So if you would like a more, you know, consistent release schedule, if you'd like more consistent content, we'd love to give that to you. And we very much appreciate all the support and all of our

2:19.3

patrons. Also becoming a patron gives you access to discussion boards on all of our full-length

2:27.1

episodes. So there will be a discussion board on this episode and all on all of the ideas

2:31.8

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