week 9: Jen Rohrs: art in the media

There is an original series on the Sundance channel called "Iconoclasts." Basically the show pairs up two modern innovators and gives them the opportunity to talk to each other about the driving forces behind their work.  I had never heard of this word when Professor Howe asked us to define it and the basic google definitions all dealt with the breaking of images, and opposing icons.  When she asked us in class for the modern connotation I had no idea that it would be so positive, meaning something like an innovator or revolutionary.  I think it's interesting that since first noticing this show I seem to see adds for it quite often and the word has now become part of my vocabulary.  I think its also interesting how the word that comes from a historically religious form of art can change to such a secular and revolutionary word today.