David Friedberg is a professor of art history at Columbia University. In 1989 he wrote an important book called The Power of Images. It dealt with psychological responses to art from emotional responses of all kinds, including the impulse to destroy. He says people have always attempted to break images for the sake of publicity.
Tensions are simmering in London as climate protesters turn up the heat on their soup-flinging activism. Rishi Sunak’s government is attempting to keep the situation from boiling over.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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