Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts - Attraction Images

List of contents

Introduction
[Anna Schober]
1. The Popular in Philosophy
[Marc Rölli]
2. Authority of Images: Notes on an Iconography of Everybody Figures in the Visual Arts
[Anna Schober]
3. Not just everybody? On past and future attempts to visualise the people in democratic societies
[Wim Weymans]
4. The Ambivalences of Popularisation: The Theory and Practice of the Audience in Visual Art
[Eva Kernbauer]
5. Attraction and Efficacy: Spectacle as Critical Practice in Contemporary Art
[Elisabeth Fritz]
6. The Mask and the Narcissistic Wound: An Anthropological Perspective on Nationalist Leadership
[Lynda Dematteo]
7. Composite Faces: Photographic Constructions of Human Faces between Average and Type
[Raul Gschrey]
8. Duane Hanson’s Sculptures of American Everyday Life
[Viola Rühse]
9. Change of Scale: Film Between the Big and the Small Screen
[Martine Beugnet]
10. Estranging the Everyday. On the Creativity of Ordinariness
[Veronika Zink]
11. A Deleuzian Perspective on the Everybody between Visual Culture and recent Protest Movements
[Nina Bandi]
12. Contagion Images: The Affect of Queering the Social through Digital Memes
[Elena Pilipets]

About the author

Anna Schober is Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Cultural Analysis at Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria.

Summary

This book examines the iconic figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics in which visual art and visual popular culture attempt to appeal to "all of us," with interdisciplinary contributions from the fields of art history, film and media studies, philosophy, anthropology, and political theory.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Schober, Anna (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt Schober
• Assisted by: Anna Schober (Editor), Anna (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt Schober (Editor), Schober Anna (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781138605886
• ISBN: 978-1-138-60588-6
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Popular Culture, Europe, ART / History / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / European, ART / Film & Video, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Popular Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Propaganda, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Politics and government, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, The arts: general topics