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Iconographies of Power - The Politics and Poetics of Visual Representation

English · Hardback

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Today the question of iconography has taken on a new and more general urgency. As a dominant cultural practice, iconography embraces the politics as well as the poetics of visual representation within their specific historical and cultural conditions. In its contemporary significance the question of iconography moreover reaches beyond disciplinary boundaries of conventional definitions and interpretations of the relation between words and images in a demand to critically compare and contrast their different iconographies as cultural practices of power.
In their distinct arguments and from different perspectives, the essays collected in this volume are all similarly concerned with the iconographical power and poetics of the image, including a broad range of visual representations: prints and illustrations, painting, sculpture and concept art, documentary and art photography, film comedy and digital imagery. In all these instances, the image is looked at not as an exclusive and isolated phenomenon but, rather emphatically, as a visual and contextual event; as both the source and target of the collision and the collusion of word and image; as instances and symptoms of contemporary iconographic practice alike.

With contributions by Winfried Fluck, Mario Klarer, Mick Gidley, Douglas Tallack, Heinz Ickstadt, Peter Schneck, Maren Stange, Hanne Loreck, Zsófia Ban, Susanne v. Falkenhausen, Deniz Göktürk, Wendy Steiner, Hanjo Berressem, Kaja Silverman, Michael Wetzel.

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Authors Ulla Haselstein, Berndt Ostendorf
Assisted by Ulla Haselstein (Editor), Berndt Ostendorf (Editor), Peter Schneck (Editor)
Publisher Universitätsvlg. Winter
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.09.2003
 
EAN 9783825315337
ISBN 978-3-8253-1533-7
No. of pages 347
Dimensions 135 mm x 210 mm x 22 mm
Weight 500 g
Illustrations 30 Abb.
Series American Studies / A Monograph Series
American Studies - A Monograph Series
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

Ästhetik, Kultur, Pornographie, Bild, Photographie, Gesellschaft, Ikonographie, Aufsatzsammlung, Kulturelles Gedächtnis

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