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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The report was against a comment in this post which was a post of the famous image by Rene Magritte, titled "The treachery of images (This is not a pipe)".

Someone had commented the title of the artwork, and the report was:

"Ad hominem maggrittean slur against images"

Thanks to reporter for giving me a laugh.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm

Iconoclasm (from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn) 'figure, icon' and κλάω (kláō) 'to break')[i] is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeldenstorm

Beeldenstorm (pronounced [ˈbeːldə(n)ˌstɔr(ə)m]) in Dutch and Bildersturm [ˈbɪldɐˌʃtʊʁm] in German (roughly translatable from both languages as 'attack on the images or statues') are terms used for outbreaks of destruction of religious images that occurred in Europe in the 16th century, known in English as the Great Iconoclasm or Iconoclastic Fury.[2] During these spates of iconoclasm, Catholic art and many forms of church fittings and decoration were destroyed in unofficial or mob actions by Calvinist Protestant crowds as part of the Protestant Reformation.[3][4] Most of the destruction was of art in churches and public places.[5] Protestant polemical print celebrating the destruction, 1566

The Dutch term usually specifically refers to the wave of disorderly attacks in the summer of 1566 that spread rapidly through the Low Countries from south to north. Similar outbreaks of iconoclasm took place in other parts of Europe, especially in Switzerland and the Holy Roman Empire in the period between 1522 and 1566, notably Zürich (in 1523), Copenhagen (1530), Münster (1534), Geneva (1535), and Augsburg (1537), and in Livonia between 1522-1524.[6]

In England, there was both government-sponsored removal of images and also spontaneous attacks from 1535 onwards, and in Scotland from 1559.[6] In France, there were several outbreaks as part of the Wars of Religion from 1560 onwards.

Image conflicts can get serious!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

TIL... thanks for that informative précis :)

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