Thinking about Art: Iconoclasm
For more information on the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban regime on February 26, 2001, and reconstructed images, see this website:

The Buddha of Bamiyan
(http://www.photogrammetry.ethz.ch/research/bamiyan/buddha/index.html)

Artists: Robert Rauschenberg
This hard-to-characterize boundary breaker has worked with America's best-known avant-garde artists, musicians and choreographers, and is a very important cultural figure in post-WWII America. A fine article in the Christian Science Monitor describes his contributions and influences in greater detail:

Rauschenberg's Signature on the Century
(http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1997/11/28/feat/arts.1.html)

Artists: Katsushika Hokusai
Katsushika Hokusai is the printmaker who produced the The Great Wave from his series of prints Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. His woodcuts were collected by the Impressionists, including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Webmuseum
(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/hokusai/)

A biography of Katsushika Hokusai
(http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ukiyoe/raf_hokusai_intro.html)

Artchive
(http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hokusai.html)