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Article: From icon to iconoclast in just a few short centuries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 18, 2009
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Is it possible to be both an icon and an iconoclast? Well, if
anybody can have it both ways it is probably the singer Grace Jones.
Daniel Simmons writes in from Herne Bay in Kent to draw attention
to a review that appeared on Monday. In its first sentence Grace
Jones was described as an "Eighties style icon", while near the end
came this: "Such is Jones's image now, as an iconoclast, clothes
horse and cultural symbol, that her music seems to take a back
seat."
It is worth recalling the origins of "icon". It is a Greek word
meaning image. It signifies particularly the painted religious
images venerated in the Eastern Orthodox churches. Hence the modish
meaning, a person or ...