Dr Stacy Boldrick is VARIE Administrator at the Department of Fine Art, University of Edinburgh, UK. Dr Richard Clay is Research Fellow at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, UK.

• Contents: Introduction, Stacy Boldrick and Richard Clay; What does iconoclasm create? what does preservation destroy? reflections on iconoclasm in East Asia, Fabio Rambelli and Eric Reinders; Attacks on automata and eviscerated sculptures, Aura Satz; Iconoclasm and consumption: or, household management according to Thomas Cromwell, Matthew Hunter; Iconoclasm, the commodity, and the art of painting, Charles Ford; Bouchardon's statue of Louis XV: iconoclasm and the transformation of signs, Richard Clay; 'Wyatt the destroyer': a vandal at Salisbury Cathedral?, Alexandrina Buchanan; Clastic icons: prints taken from broken or reassembled blocks in some 'popular prints' of the Western tradition, Tom Gretton; Making sense of iconoclasm: popular responses to the destruction of religious images in revolutionary Mexico, Adrian Bantjes; Surrealism in the Bronze Age: statuephobia and the efficacy of metaphorical iconoclasm, Simon Baker; Sturm auf das stadtbild: on the treatment of Wilhelminian architectural decoration in the 20th century, Hans Georg Hiller von Gaertringen; 'Idols in stone' or empty pedestals? debating revolutionary iconoclasm in the post-Soviet transition, Polly Jones; Hermetic huts and modern state: the politics of iconoclasm in West Africa, Ramon Sarró; Select bibliography; Index.

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