Iconoclasm as a Political Issue

Artist destroying his work. Series “Art of Destruction — Destruction of Art”

Photo: Merzmensch

The history of the destruction of art works is long and shrill. Let’s now leave aside the ISIS annihilation traits through art history, or autodafés of state totalitarianism (be it “Entartete Kunst” in Nazi-Munich or “Bulldozer Exhibition” in Soviet-Moscow). It is sometimes the…