A Sculptor and the Iconoclasts - A lecture by Professor Alexander Stoddart

In all ages there can be found evidence of systemic attacks upon images and their makers. Indeed the tendency wrathfully to pursue the perpetrators of iconophilia is monumentalised in myth and scripture as the express pleasure of the Deity. Throughout history (especially in the Occident) and extraordinary continuous seam of iconoclastic piety can be traced, resulting in the discovery of enormous resources of this devotional and compliant instinct in the last century and in our own times. Alexander Stoddart would like to muse on the perenniality, and has learned over the years to respond to it not with furiosity, but rather curiosity, in an enlightened and facetious spirit.

Following the lecture there will be a reception and viewing of Professor Stoddart’s recently donated casts to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.