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Iconize

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I´con`ize
v. t.1.To form an image or likeness of.


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Forsaking for once the colonial cringe by which we immediately iconize anyone even remotely Indian who has made it big in the West by winning a prize or even got rich quick through a large royalty advance, we chose to tell Naipaul that either he was no Indian at all or, worse still, he was a bad Indian, and we were going to have nothing to do with him at all.
Koraichi's installation iconizes al-Rumi's journey across continents through Turkish ceramic ablution basins, Moroccan gold-embroidered silk, and metal.
For example, in Deanna Jane Miesch's 1991 black and white photograph, the words, "Rape isn't beautiful" are typed across an image of Bernini's 17th-century sculpture, The Rape of Proserpina, questioning the tendency of traditional art-historical accounts to iconize and estheticize without examining a work's ideological implications.
 
 
 
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