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

Williams wants to impress upon folks that he is an iconoclast, and it comes off as smarmy.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 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

There was something hopeful about the iconoclast in O.J., for he dared to defy the limits placed on his Black self.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2024

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