Kristine Kolrud is Research Fellow in the History of Art at the Centre for Medieval Studies at Stockholm University. Marina Prusac is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology, and Keeper of the Egypt and Antiquity Collections at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. Kristine Kolrud, Marina Prusac, Eberhard W. Sauer, Bente Kiilerich, Anne Karahan, Thomas F.X. Noble, Tarald Rasmussen, Andrew Spicer, Jens Braarvig, Siri Sande.
'These essays ask readers to reconsider their pre-existing assumptions about ideologically-motivated attacks on images and to see similarities between various iconoclasms in different times and places, from the early Christian destruction of pagan images to the Taliban's destruction of the giant Buddhas in Barniyan province in Afghanistan in 2001. Every essay offers it own, nuanced definition of iconoclasm...' The Art Newspaper 'Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity is accessible to a wide range of academic backgrounds and its broad scope invites readers to make critical comparisons. The publication complements existing literature and its focus on pre-Reformation case studies offers a particularly valuable contribution to the expanding historiography of iconoclasm.' Journal of Art Historiography 'Iconoclasm from Antiquity to Modernity contains some papers of genuine originality and substance.' Art and Christianity