Art History Final

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Over Vitebsk

Figure represents eastern european Jewish refugees fleeing form Russia

Jewish Artist

Elements from cubism

Colors from Fauvism

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Liberatino of Aunt Jemima

Aunt was a term used for servants

Implies that she is more attractive if she looks less black.

The modern one on the box de-emphasizes her blackness

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The Artifact Piece

Challenges the way that American culture has presented his race as “vanished”

He was surrounded by items from a “lost race”

Shows that the culture is still alive

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Painting from a Cult House

Rituals performed in cult houses were seen as creating men from infants, usurping women’s procreative power

Men believed thier spirits could be passed on to younger men through the art

Tambaran

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Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus

All body types are ideal here - the women’s soft fleshiness was a sign of health and wealth

Gender Roles - men had privelage over women’s bodies

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Oath of the Horatii

Three brothers vow to represent the Roman army in a fight to the death

Emphasizes women’s passivity

Heroic actions are a mark of masculinity

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Hall of Mirrors

In the same way that Louis XIV dominated the French church, nobility, and peasants, he also controlled arts, fashion, and manners.

This hall was a sign of Louis’s power

He established The French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture

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Trauma

Dead person is a chinese studen killed by the gov

Bowl represents China and the artist herself, being emptied and refilled by the cycles of history

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Interior House Post

Part of a lineage house, built when a new lineage appeared because of death or marraige

Potlaches

Carvings might represent ancestors

eyes - power

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Epa Headdress Called “Orangun”

50 pounds

Contains image of clan founder

Used in rituals to promote fertility and clan well being

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The Swing

Frivolous sexual escapades of the French aristocracy

Shortly after, this class was brutally eliminated in the French revolution

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The Kitchen Maid

Genre Painting

Working class elevated with dignity

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La Grand Jatte

Pointillism

Reflects a growing awareness of science

Composed and orderly, details of middle class life are carefully recorded

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Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley

Documentary Photography

Migrant Camp in California

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Watts Towers

Working class artist in a working class neighborhood

30 years

Many consider it folk, or naive art

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Temple of Ramses II

Egyptian nobility was considered Semi-divine, and all people of this class were depicted in highly standarized ways.

His image is repeated many times

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Seated Scribe

Lower class, thus result is more lifelike and less Ideal than Ramses II

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Las Meninas

Infant Margarita

She is in an exalted position, shows class

Use of mirrors

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Luncheon of the Boating Party

Newly powerful middle class was able to enjoy new lesiure activities, such as this pleasurable outing in nature

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Unicorn in Captivity

The last of sixe Netherlandish tapestries

May symbolize Jesus

May also symbolize men during the age of chivalry

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Monkey Magic - Sex, Money, and Drugs

Monkey tries to catch three powerful elements of life, money, sex, and drugs. These are actual elephant dung, representing the African ritual use of it.

Monkey is a stand in for human behavior

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Vessel in the form of a monkey

Rocks inside mimic the sound of the monkey’s chatter

Monkeys were kept as pets

Grasps the energy of the monkey

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The Haywain

Casual, direct, natural

Particular emphasis on clouds

Landscape paintings were very desired due to new industrialism

Painted indoors

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Beyond the Solitary Bamboo Grove

Reaction to city life

This made pristine nature available again

Painted indoors

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The Japanese Footbridge ## Footnote Captured subtle qualities of light and reflection. Painted outdoors These paintings imply the presence of humans(same with the other artists)

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Clearing Winter Storm ## Footnote Doesn't imply any presence of humans, just pristine nature. Filters used while shooting Raised public support for national parks

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A Stoneware vase of Flowers ## Footnote His arrangement would not be able to exist in real life Flower paintings were very popular in China and Japan The meaning often came from the flowers' symbolism

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The Lightning Field ## Footnote A bit of a conceptual piece. Much of the beauty is in the mind of the viewer

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Spiral Jetty ## Footnote The spiral represents and incredible potential force Often invisible because of the tides

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Serpent Mount ## Footnote Cermonial site constructed by Native Americans These sites often resembled animals in the Americas

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Carolina Paroquet ## Footnote Scientific detail Meant to be informative, still used for research today

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Hunter and Kangaroo ## Footnote Meant to be an educational aid X-Ray style Kangaroo is bigger because it is the subject

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The Persistence of Memory ## Footnote Surrealism Watches typically help to keep order, but here they are reduced to disorder. Surrealists posited that the dream world is just as real and important as the external world

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Breaking of the Vessels ## Footnote Human knowledge is limited and sagging under its own weight These book hide knowledge instead of exposing it All human endeavor is cycle in nature Title symbolizes the introduction of evil into the world

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The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up ## Footnote Highlights the difference between innovation and progress - the tugboat is useful, but not beautiful A sense of loss of this old, beautiful technology

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Forever Bicycles ## Footnote Icon of a nation and a class of people Forever is a common bicycle brand in china These bicycles are a sign of the working class We may eventually become to be defined by that which we build

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Opera House ## Footnote Organic Architecture Based on work of Frank Loyd Wright Thought of as a functional sculpture

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Guggenheim Musuem ## Footnote Organic Architecture Only one route through Bad for displaying artwork

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Walt Disney Concert Hall

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Walt Disney Concert Hall ## Footnote Deconstructivist Abstract Forms There is no single focal point in the entire structure

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Colosseum ## Footnote Free admission for all Seating reserved by class

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The Great Ball Court ## Footnote A player or team would be sacrificed at the end of the game. The soccer game was looked at as a metaphor for a journey through the underworld by the sun and the moon

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Boy Playing a Flute ## Footnote Women artist in a male time period Genre painting

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Harp Player ## Footnote Sculptures like this of male musicians were buried in graves.

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Musicians and Dancers ## Footnote Reflects the cultures fixation with funerary rituals and the afterlife Levity and pleasure A much more relaxed scene

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Jane Avril ## Footnote Artist liked to draw scene of the night life in paris and the people he met there. This particular portrait is of a singer and dancer at the cabaret. Snake emphasizes the curves and suggest her tempting nature

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Bunraku ## Footnote Doll drama one half life size Each puppet is controlled by several different people

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Household ## Footnote Happening Artists thought that are should mess with life instead of interpreting life experience Here, gender roles were examined as the women built a nest and then licked the strawberry jam of the car hood that the men brought back

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Lyre ## Footnote Gold and Lapis Lazuli Bearded bull was symbol of royalty Contains 4 painted mythical scenes

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Open Circle Dance ## Footnote Suggests unity across the universe as well as individual growth, and metamorphosis

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I Love Lucy ## Footnote Humor was communicated visually

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Spirited Away ## Footnote Creator is know for his elaborate hand drawn architectural interiors and diverse characters. Lush Landscapes A coming of age story of a young girl

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Parlor, Monticello ## Footnote Filled with art

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The British Museum ## Footnote Greco-Roman Facade, in that time Greco Roman and Renaissane art were considered supreme human acheivements

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Herakles or Dionysus

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Guggenheim Bilbao ## Footnote Modern outside surfaces tell you to expect modern art on the inside

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Gateway Arch

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St. Louis Gateway Arch ## Footnote Publice art has started to be something you experience rather than something you look at

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Millennium Park ## Footnote Worlds largest green roof project

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Cloud Gate ## Footnote Meant for touching, flips the traditional do not touch script Public Art

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Banksy Graffiti Art ## Footnote Shows that street art should be as valuable as art in museums Street art emphasizes imagery, unlike tagging or text heavy graffiti

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Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed ## Footnote Communist government threatened to destroy it

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Mona Lisa

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The lack of interaction based on the extreme protections may hurt the viewing experience of the art

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Crazy Horse

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Some native aren't stoked that money went to this isntead of the tribes

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Kuba

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Dandelion Line ## Footnote Create a special moment in nature, very impermanent

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Landscape at Aix

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Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum

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Who's work was influenced by the Fauvists?

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Mark Chagall, Over Vitebsk

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Rococo Architecture

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Seen as feminine, emphasis on delicate, curving, colorful decoration. Mirrors and ornamentation

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Bound feet

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Sexually attractive to men, as well as the walk the resulted Bound from birth. Assured women remained subservient

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Roman Ancestry

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Preserved Portraits of ancestors. Death masks were used, and then converted to stone. These portraits were copied for various family members. Having a unique art object was not important

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Ukiyo-E

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Woodblock prints that were the art of the middle class Modest in size and produced in large numbers Kabuki actors, young women, or landscapes Kept in drawers

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Unicorn symbolism

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Jesus Christ and Faithful husband in marraige

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Salvador Dale art type and writing inspiration

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Surrealism Freud

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John Constable Methods

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Numerous outdoor studies in a scientific manner Stippling, small dabs of bright color and white are applied to create shimmering light

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Landscape artwork in China and Japan

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Popular with upper and middle class urban populations Often hung on large hanging silk scrolls Based on Daoism Effortless, spontaneity

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Andy Goldsworthy Work preservation

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Only way it can be preserved is through photos!

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Culture that creates artwork in order to be destroyed through ritual

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Navajo sand paintings

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Frank Gehry Architecture

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There is no apparent central or focal point. Deconstructivist Disorienting Disconnection between outside and inside Neo_Modern

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Sydney Opera House artist inspiration

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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George Seurat Style

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Post-impressionism Pointillism

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Ansel Adams Nature Relationship

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Like to take photos that didn't show any evidence of human involvement Grand and romantic photos of remote landscapes Ecological concerns were a motivation to make art

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Olmecs of South America

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Animal imagery Animal features protected the man an extended his power in the stone engraving

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Aboriginal Art

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Transfers knowledge form one clan member to another, the Kangaroo diagram

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Dogon Dancers

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Masked dance that tell the story of how death entered the world. The masks are worn for three days after a death in the community

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Happenings Vs Performance Art

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Happening tend to be more spontaneous and improvised, usually in a public space Audience is part of a happening

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What is Fallen Star about?

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A small cottage seems to have crashed on the roof of an engineering building. About leaving home and cultural displacement

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Kusama

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Japanese artis that would create illusionistic, magical environments using technology Infinity Room

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Wiley

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African American painter that appropriates famous masterpieces, showing blacks as saints and martyrs in Baroque style

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Yoruba Tribe Crown

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Bearded Crown worn by high ranking chiefs Cone shape is very important Beads symbolize wisdom

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Vanderzee

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Photographer that portrayed the black community as strong

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Islamic Symbolism

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Abundance of Allah's creation, gardens Squares Rivers of paradise

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Temporary Artists

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Andy Goldsworthy (Dandelion Line) James Luna (Artifact Piece) Suzanne Lacy (in Mourning and in Rage)

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Monet

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Monet's paintings became more and more abstract as they became more about the brushstrokes than the imagery. Reality was only that which could be sensed, measured, and analyzed

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Greek Theatre

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Performed in amphitheaters against a skene

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Neo-Classical Architecture

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Masculine Architecture

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Chevreul

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Scientist who was responsible for inspiring pointilism

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Fauvism

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Bright Colors and Patterns

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Futurism

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Art that embraces the energy and dynamism of modern technology

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Impressionism

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Every day scenes of life and landscapes, capturing fleeting effects of light and colo

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Nazca

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Pre-Incans that drew geogliphs

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Ramayama

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Thai fantastical story

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Gaze

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Analysis in artwork of whom is looking at home

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Taliban Iconoclasm

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Bamiyan stone Buddha for being an idol