Idolatry and its discontents

New Left Review

Volumn , Issue 44, 2007, Pages 107-119

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1. A revised version of this essay will appear in the forthcoming Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example, edited by Maria Hlavajova, Rosi Braidotti and Charles Esche, as part of the Dutch contribution to the 2007 Venice Biennale.
2. I know the Susa mural through a photo taken by Frank Denys.
3. See various contributions in the exhibition catalogue Veil: Veiling, Representation and Contemporary Art, London and Cambridge, MA 2003. The concept of the exhibition was Zineb Sedira's.
4. All Shariati, Fatima is Fatima, Tehran 1981, ch. 5.
5. On the Enlightenment iconography of unveiling Isis (mysterious nature), see Jan Assmann, Moses der Ägypter. Entzifferung einer Gedachtnisspur, Frankfurt 2000, pp. 188-96.
6. For a routinely and somewhat tiresomely provocative take on Islamist terrorists as iconophiles who reinforce rather than attack the belief in images, see Boris Groys, "The Fate of Art in the Age of Terror', in Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, eds, Making Things Public, Karlsruhe 2005, pp. 970-5.
7. Different religions count the Commandments in differing ways. In Judaism and most Protestant churches, the ban on idolatry is part of the Second Commandment; in Catholicism, it is subsumed under the First.
8. Edwyn Bevan, Holy Images: An Inquiry into Idolatry and Image-Worship in Ancient Paganism and in Christianity, London 1940, p. 39.
9. See the 'Mohammed Image archive', at www.zombietime.com.
10. Max Horkheimer, letter to Otto Herz, September 1, 1969, in Max Horkheimer, Gesammelte Schriften vol. 18: Briefwechsel 1949-1973, Frankfurt 1996, p. 743.
11. Clement Greenberg, 'Modernist Painting1 [1960], in Greenberg, The Collected Essays and Criticism 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, London and Chicago 1993, pp. 85-93.
12. Fatwa by Sheikh Ahmad Kutty of the Islamic Institute of Toronto, available at www.islamonline.net.
13. Sean Snyder, 'Some Byproducts: Thoughts on the Visual Rhetoric of PSYOP', Maria Hlavajova and fill Winder, eds, Concerning War. A Critical Reader, Utrecht and Frankfurt 2006, p. 185.
14. Preceding quotations in this paragraph all from Re-Magazine #23, Spring 2007 (2002), unpaginated.
15. Arnoud Holleman, "The Second Commandment', text distributed at the Stedelijk Museum as part of Holleman's contribution to the group show Just in Time, 2006.
16. Guy Debord, Panegyric, London 2004.
17. Bruno Latour, 'Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern', Critical Inquiry, vol. 30, no. 2,2003-04.
18. See also Bruno Latour, 'What is Iconoclash? Or Is There a World Beyond the Image Wars?', in Latour and Peter Weibel, eds, Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art, Karlsruhe 2002, pp. 14-37.