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This article is a general discussion of aniconism and introduces some less popularized areas where it appears. Aniconism in religion is presented in greater detail in separate articles (see below under ""). CATEGORIZATION Aniconism is a particular case of Representation (''the absence of images'') and Taboo (''the prohibition of images''). The difference is that one expresses only the absence of images, while the other contains also an injunction conceived to regulate their absence. An avoidance and repugnance of representations is called ''iconophobia'', its antonymic reaction being that of an '' Iconodule ''. When unformalized predispositions or clearly stated legislations are put in practice and enforced, leading to the removal and destruction of representations, the aniconism becomes '' Iconoclasm ''. Aniconism relates also to '' Censorship '', which takes place after a representation was already produced, but before, or shorthly after, it is made public, and also involves less violence than iconoclasm. In common usage aniconism is used to designate the absence of paintings and statues, taboo caracterizes behaviours, censorship is applied to written materials and iconoclasm to the destruction of paintings and statues. ''Semantic field of aniconism (from general to particular).'' |
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