Photography, cinema, and video have irrevocably changed the ways in which we view and interpret images. Indeed, the mechanical reproduction of images was a cent

The Catholic Church answered Reformation-era contestations of the cult of images in a famous decree of the Council of Trent (1563). Art in Dispute revisits this

This book discusses the privileging and prohibition of religious images over two and a half millennia in the West.

This book uncovers an underlying dispute over the role images play in contemporary society and, consequently, over their values and purposes. Two decades after

Why do people attack monuments and other public objects charged with authority by the societies that produced them? What do open assaults on images and artworks