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"Bilderstreit"
| "Bilderstreit" is the German word for the iconoclastic controversy, a dispute over worship of religious images that occurred in the Byzantine Empire during the eighth and ninth centuries. This work is one of a number that Kiefer did on the subject in which he recast the dispute in order to represent his idea that "spiritual things such as art are always menaced by real physical power." |
Iconoclastic Controversy
"Bilderstreit"
1980. Gouache and pen and ink on photograph
19 3/4 x 31 1/2 in. (50.2 X 80 cm)
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995
1995.14.29
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