Book Details
Orange Code:28072
Paperback:273 pages
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1. Representation, Presentation, Presence: Tracing the Homo Pictor2. Iconic Power and Performance: The Role of the Critic3. Iconspicuous Revolutions of 1989: Culture and Contingency in the Making of Political Icons4. The Making of Humanitarian Visual Icons: On the 1921–1923 Russian Famine as Foundational Event5. Seeing Tragedy in the News Images of September 116. The Emergence of Iconic Depth: Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective7. Iconic Difference and Seduction8. Iconic Rituals: Towards a Social Theory of Encountering Images9. Visible Meanings
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Iconic Power is a collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. What counts as iconic in late modern society? How do icons work? What exactly makes an image, object, or person iconic? Why should we care about icons? These are among the central questions of this volume. From elite wine brands to popular music festivals, from the Berlin Wall to the Abu Ghraib scandal, the contributors to this volume discuss the cultural biographies of various iconic images and events. They show that icons seduce and shock, and that the iconosphere can represent at once the richness and the poverty of culture, its superficiality as well as its depth. Each contribution to this book carefully tests the analytic purchase and empirical implications of iconicity. If we can succeed in understanding the iconic, we will better understand our culture and we will significantly extend the scope of cultural sociology.
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