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Material Motivations: Why Attack Art?

8 November 2013 at 18.30–20.30
Madonna and Child c1475–1490

Madonna and Child c.1475–90

Winchester Cathedral Photo © Dr John Crook

Join anthropologist Christopher Pinney for an insight into the different motivations for destroying art, the evolution of iconoclasm in British society, and how these troubled objects enter museum collections.

Tate Britain

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8 November 2013 at 18.30–20.30

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