Inflation and Reflection: On Recent Publications about Iconoclasm

From the 1970s, when iconoclasm studies started to expand beyond a few specialized domains (Byzantium, the Reformation, the French Revolution), to today, they have moved from scarcity to abundance. This is due in part to the continued occurrence of iconoclastic acts and movements, from the toppling of “Communist monuments” after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to that of effigies associated with colonialism and slavery, via the destruction of images and buildings (as well as human lives) perpetr...