Iconic power materiality and meaning in social life / [Texte imprimé] :
edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Dominik Bartmanski, and Bernhard Giesen
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- 1 vol. (VI-262 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
- Cultural sociology .
- Cultural sociology (Palgrave Macmillan, New York) .
Notes bibliogr.
Representation, presentation, presence: tracing the Homo pictor / Gottfried Boehm -- Iconic power and performance: the role of the critic / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Iconspicuous revolutions of 1989: culture and contingency in the making of political icons / Dominik Bartmanski -- The making of humanitarian visual icons: on the 1921-1923 Russian famine as foundational event / Fuyuki Kurasawa -- Seeing tragedy in the news images of September 11 / Wendy Bowler -- The emergence of iconic depth: secular icons in a comparative perspective / Werner Binder -- Shifting extremisms: on the political iconology in contemporary Serbia / Daniel Suber and Slobodan Karamanic -- The visualization of uncertainty: HIV statistics in public media / Valentin Rauer -- How to make an iconic commodity: the case of Penfolds' Grange wine / Ian Woodward and David Ellison -- Becoming iconic: the cases of Woodstock and Bayreuth / Philip Smith -- Body and image / Hans Belting -- Iconic difference and seduction / Bernhard Giesen -- Iconic rituals: towards a social theory of encountering images / Julia Sonnevend -- Visible meanings / Piotr Sztompka
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Visual perception Visualization Branding (Marketing) / Social aspects Culture