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+  From: brian carroll <human@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 23:15:08 -0500
The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media Age
CAMILLE PAGLIA // via drudgereport.com
http://www.bu.edu/arion/Paglia_11.3/Paglia_Magic%20of%20Images.htm

'Literal iconoclasm was undertaken in Afghanistan in 2001 when the
Taliban ordered the pulverizing by artillery fire of ancient colossi of
Buddha, carved out of a cliff at Bamian.'

'... The austere, white Protestant church in the seventeenth-century
neoclassical style of Christopher Wren (the fount of American church
design) is a temple to reason, with no images...'

'Byzantine icons hugely influenced European culture: their arrival in
medieval Italy revived Italian art...'

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