The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet - Softcover

Tugendhaft, Aaron

 
9780226737560: The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022673756X ISBN 13: 9780226737560
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2020

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In 2015, the Islamic State released a video of men smashing sculptures in Iraq’s Mosul Museum as part of a mission to cleanse the world of idolatry. This book unpacks three key facets of that event: the status and power of images, the political importance of museums, and the efficacy of videos in furthering an ideological agenda through the internet.

Beginning with the Islamic State’s claim that the smashed objects were idols of the “age of ignorance,” Aaron Tugendhaft questions whether there can be any political life without idolatry. He then explores the various roles Mesopotamian sculpture has played in European imperial competition, the development of artistic modernism, and the formation of Iraqi national identity, showing how this history reverberates in the choice of the Mosul Museum as performance stage. Finally, he compares the Islamic State’s production of images to the ways in which images circulated in ancient Assyria and asks how digitization has transformed politics in the age of social media. An elegant and accessibly written introduction to the complexities of such events, The Idols of ISIS is ideal for students and readers seeking a richer cultural perspective than the media usually provides.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Aaron Tugendhaft teaches humanities at Bard College Berlin. He is the author of Baal and the Politics of Poetry and co-editor of Idol Anxiety.
 

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
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Englisch
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022673756X
ISBN 13 
9780226737560
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115
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