The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution by Dario Gamboni

The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution

Dario Gamboni

448 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction art history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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In January 2006, a man tried to break Marcel Duchamp's Fountain sculpture with a small hammer. The sculpted foot of Michelangelo's David was damaged in 1991 by a purportedly mentally ill artist. Each such incident confronts us with the unsettling ...

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