Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Editors’ Statement xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. What’s Wrong with Images? 19
7. 2. The Christian Critique of Idolatry 32
8. 3. The Painter’s Breath and Concepts of Idol Anxiety 41
9. 4. Idolatry: Nietzsche, Blake, and Poussin 56
10. 5. Dreadful Beauty and the Undoing of Adulation in the Work of Kara Walker and Michael Ray Charles 74
11. 6. Iconoclasm and Real Space 97
12. 7. How Many Ways Can You Idolize a Song? 117
13. 8. Iconoclasm and the Sublime 133
14. 9. What We See and What Appears 152
15. 10. On Heidegger, the Idol, and the Work of the Work of Art 169
16. 11. Beyond Instrumentalism and Voluntarism: Idol Anxiety and the Awakening of a Philosophical Mood 184
17. Notes 203
18. Index 235