iconoclast
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Frank Dikötter is an iconoclast historian who immerses himself in the primary sources more thoroughly than any other Western scholar of 20th-century China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
There was a lengthy interview with the subject herself, replete with quotes meant to amplify her image as an iconoclast and a force to be reckoned with.
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2025
Early in the 20th century, French iconoclast Marcel Duchamp described a new “scientific spirit” for avant-garde art, noting the methodical painterly investigations of predecessors Georges Seurat and Paul Cézanne.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2024
He was reverent and rude, a very knowledgeable man and an iconoclast, smalltown and metropolitan at the same time.
From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023
But Wagner wasn't the only composer who was guilty of creating unnecessary clutter in the eyes of an iconoclast like Satie.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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