Art under attack: histories of British iconoclasm

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Introduction / Tabitha Barber and Stacy Boldrick -- Iconoclasms past and present : conflict and art / Stacy Boldrick -- Idolatry, iconoclasm and the Reformation's long legacy / Tabitha Barber -- 1. Religion. Dissolution : the dissolution of the monastries / Susan Harrison ; Reformation / Richard Williams ; Puritan iconoclasm : monuments of superstition and idolatry / Tabitha Barber -- 2. Politics. Politics and public space : making and breaking public sculpture, 1688-1929 / M.G. Sullivan ; Suffragettes : the political value of iconoclastic acts / Lena Mohamed -- 3. Aesthetics. Attacks on art / Stacy Boldrick ; Destruction in art : destruction/creation : act or perish / Andrew Wilson ; Art transformed : matter and translation in contemporary art / Stacy Boldrick