From idolatry to iconoclasm: exploring passionate reactions to imagery
across history
Images have always elicited passionate responses, triggering reactions
of veneration as well as destruction, of idolatry as well as iconoclasm.
But what is the origin of their unique power? German art historian
Gottfried Boehm (born 1942) seeks to answer this question, tracing the
affective potential of images across Western history.