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Authors: DOMINIC-ALAIN BOARIU.
Published Online: 2023-12-30
Published Print: 2023-12-30
pp. 189-191
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Certain somewhat miscreant Boeotians will be quick to declare anathema: how could we not cast into some circle – of some hell, of some library, somewhere between the iconophiles and the iconodules – the iconophages, so much their relationship with images defies comprehension. Drinking water spilt on a stele, licking a statuette, scraping a fresco to make balms, crushing a holy image to use as a potion, chewing an engraving, or simply swallowing the diluted ashes of ancestors: such are these anomalies of the senses. At best, critics will greet these “oral urges”, which oscillate between high piety and low madness, with perplexity.
