Smashing stuff!

Anne Roberts  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Dec 2013
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Smashing stuff!

The Cheapside Cross demolished 1647

ART UNDER ATTACK
Iconoclasm in England
Tate Britain
Runs until January 5 2014

It is highly unusual for a major gallery to hold an exhibition which is about the destruction, rather than the creation of art.

Iconoclasm, and the powerful motives which drive people to mutilate or destroy artworks, is a huge subject with a very long history, and this exhibition is necessarily highly selective.

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