Malevolent/Benevolent Iconoclasm in Late Socialist Vietnam

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Contemporary Iconoclasms 7
4. I. ICONOCLAST POLITICS: CLASHES OVER MONUMENTS
5. Beheading the Squatting N*** 17
6. Socioclasm 35
7. Iconoclasts in Dixie? 48
8. Towards a Censorship from Below? 61
9. II. IDOL DISPUTES IN PUBLIC SPACE AND ART INSTITUTIONS: CONFLICTS BETWEEN MATTER AND MAGIC
10. Pictures That Divide 83
11. ‘Idols’ in the Museum 108
12. Malevolent/Benevolent Iconoclasm in Late Socialist Vietnam 131
13. Re-Inventing Totemism 149
14. Punishing Images 162
15. III. MEDIATED ICONOCLASM IN ART AND CULTURAL HERITAGE. REACTIONS, REFLECTIONS, AND APPROPRIATIONS
16. Posticonoclasm 181
17. “What should we do with the empty plinth?” 202
18. Econoclash 218
19. Attacking the Surface 235
20. Authors 246
21. Credits 250