Touched by an Angel.(German sculpture)

From: The Nation | Date: April 17, 2000| Author: DANTO, ARTHUR C.; RIEMENSCHNEIDER, TILMAN | Copyright information

An image, Albrecht Durer said, is "no more responsible for superstitious abuse than a weapon is responsible for a murder." It is somewhat startling to find, in the controversy over the power of images in the early years of the Reformation in Germany, the familiar argumentation of the National Rifle Association.

Admittedly, Durer had the same vested interest as a purveyor of images that a manufacturer of handguns has in arguing that the point is not to control weapons but...

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