Iconography In Cultural Studies

Author : Jens Andermann,William Rowe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 1845452127

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Images of Power by Jens Andermann,William Rowe Pdf

In Latin America, where even today writing has remained a restricted form of expression, the task of generating consent and imposing the emergent nation-state as the exclusive form of the political, was largely conferred to the image. Furthermore, at the moment of its historical demise, the new, 'postmodern' forms of sovereignty appear to rely even more heavily on visual discourses of power. However, a critique of the iconography of the modern state-form has been missing. This volume is the first concerted attempt by cultural, historical and visual scholars to address the political dimension of visual culture in Latin America, in a comparative perspective spanning various regions and historical stages. The case studies are divided into four sections, analysing the formation of a public sphere, the visual politics of avant-garde art, the impact of mass society on political iconography, and the consolidation and crisis of territory as a key icon of the state. Jens Andermann is a Lecturer in Latin American Studies at Birkbeck College, London, and co-editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. Among his publications are Mapas de poder: una arqueología literaria del espacio argentino (Rosario, 2000) and articles for major journals in Argentina, Brazil, Europe and the US. William Rowe is Anniversary Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, London. His book Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America (London, 1991) has been translated into several languages. His most recent works, apart from translations of a wide range of Latin American poetry, are Poets of Contemporary Latin America: History and the Inner Life (Oxford, 2000) and Ensayos vallejianos (Berkeley and Lima, 2006).

Author : Attila Kiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015062495083

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Iconography in Cultural Studies by Attila Kiss Pdf

Author : Larry J. Reynolds,Gordon Hutner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691227726

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National Imaginaries, American Identities by Larry J. Reynolds,Gordon Hutner Pdf

From the American Revolution to the present, the United States has enjoyed a rich and persuasive visual culture. These images have constructed, sustained, and disseminated social values and identities, but this unwieldy, sometimes untidy form of cultural expression has received less systematic attention than other modes of depicting American life. Recently, scholars in the humanities have developed a new critical approach to reading images and the cultural work they perform. This practice, American cultural iconography, is generating sophisticated analyses of how images organize our public life. The contributions to this volume exhibit the extraordinary scope and interpretive power of this interdisciplinary study while illuminating the dark corners of the nation's psyche. Drawing on such varied texts and visual media as daguerreotypes, political cartoons, tourist posters, and religious artifacts, these essays explore how pictures and words combine to teach us who we are and who we are not. They examine mimesis in elegant portraits of black Freemasons, industrial-age representations of national parks, and postwar photographs of atomic destruction. They consider how visual culture has described and disclosed the politics of racialized sexuality, whether subconsciously affirming it in the shadows of film noir or deliberately contesting it through the interethnic incest of John Sayles's Lone Star. Students of literature, film, and history will find that these essays extend the frontier of American studies. The contributors are Maurice Wallace, Dennis Berthold, Alan Trachtenberg, Shirley Samuels, Jenny Franchot, Cecelia Tichi, Eric Lott, Bryan C. Taylor, and José E. Limón.

Author : I. M. Lewis
Publisher : London ; New York : Academic Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015047597110

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Symbols and Sentiments by I. M. Lewis Pdf

Author : Pamela Sachant,Peggy Blood,Jeffery LeMieux,Rita Tekippe
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547679363

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Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning by Pamela Sachant,Peggy Blood,Jeffery LeMieux,Rita Tekippe Pdf

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics

Author : Stephanie L. Hawkins
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813929750

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American Iconographic by Stephanie L. Hawkins Pdf

In an era before affordable travel, National Geographic not only served as the first glimpse of countless other worlds for its readers, but it helped them confront sweeping historical change. There was a time when its cover, with the unmistakable yellow frame, seemed to be on every coffee table, in every waiting room. In American Iconographic, Stephanie L. Hawkins traces National Geographic’s rise to cultural prominence, from its first publication of nude photographs in 1896 to the 1950s, when the magazine’s trademark visual and textual motifs found their way into cartoon caricature, popular novels, and film trading on the "romance" of the magazine’s distinctive visual fare. National Geographic transformed local color into global culture through its production and circulation of readily identifiable cultural icons. The adventurer-photographer, the exotic woman of color, and the intrepid explorer were part of the magazine’s "institutional aesthetic," a visual and textual repertoire that drew upon popular nineteenth-century literary and cultural traditions. This aesthetic encouraged readers to identify themselves as members not only in an elite society but, paradoxically, as both Americans and global citizens. More than a window on the world, National Geographic presented a window on American cultural attitudes and drew forth a variety of complex responses to social and historical changes brought about by immigration, the Great Depression, and world war. Drawing on the National Geographic Society’s archive of readers’ letters and its founders’ correspondence, Hawkins reveals how the magazine’s participation in the "culture industry" was not so straightforward as scholars have assumed. Letters from the magazine’s earliest readers offer an important intervention in this narrative of passive spectatorship, revealing how readers resisted and revised National Geographic’s authority. Its photographs and articles celebrated American self-reliance and imperialist expansion abroad, but its readers were highly aware of these representational strategies, and alert to inconsistencies between the magazine’s editorial vision and its photographs and text. Hawkins also illustrates how the magazine actually encouraged readers to question Western values and identify with those beyond the nation’s borders. Chapters devoted to the magazine’s practice of photographing its photographers on assignment and to its genre of husband-wife adventurers reveal a more enlightened National Geographic invested in a cosmopolitan vision of a global human family. A fascinating narrative of how a cultural institution can influence and embody public attitudes, this book is the definitive account of an iconic magazine’s unique place in the American imagination.

Author : Dan Sperber
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1975-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521099676

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Rethinking Symbolism by Dan Sperber Pdf

"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology

Author : Robert B. Klymasz
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781772823646

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Icon in Canada by Robert B. Klymasz Pdf

Separated from its origins in the Old World, east Christian iconography in Canada has come to enjoy a popular following from coast to coast. With its fourteen chapters the present volume documents this living tradition from a variety of perspectives to offer the first national survey of its kind. Here, for the first time, folklorists join with art historians, anthropologists, a scientist, a theologian, enthusiasts, and iconographers to underscore the richness of a phenomenon that continues to captivate large segments of the country’s population.

Author : P. Mohammed
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230104495

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Imaging the Caribbean by P. Mohammed Pdf

This ground-breaking study of the Caribbean's iconography traces the history of visual representations of the region,as perceived by outsider and insider alike, over the last five hundred years. It circles the Caribbean while focusing on Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados, tracing the parameters drawn on each society by the colonial encounter and drawing from the methodologies and material of history, literature, art, gender, and cultural studies.

Author : Mariusz Czepczyński
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 0754670228

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Cultural Landscapes of Post-socialist Cities by Mariusz Czepczyński Pdf

Since the velvet revolution of 1989, the totalitarian communist urbanscapes of central European cities have been 'cleansed' or 'recycled', bringing in new architectural, functional and social forms to transform how they look and how they are used. This book examines the culturally conditional variations between local powers and structures despite the similarities in the general processes and systems. It assesses whether these urbanscapes clearly reflect the social, cultural and political conditions and aspirations of these transitional countries and so a critical analysis of them provides important insights.

Author : Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art Henry D Schilb,Pamela A. Patton,Henry D. Schilb
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271086211

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The Lives and Afterlives of Medieval Iconography by Art History Specialist at the Index of Medieval Art Henry D Schilb,Pamela A. Patton,Henry D. Schilb Pdf

What does the study of iconography entail for scholars active today? How does it intersect with the broad array of methodological and theoretical approaches now at the disposal of art historians? Should we still dare to use the term "iconography" to describe such work? The seven essays collected here argue that we should. Their authors set out to evaluate the continuing relevance of iconographic studies to current art-historical scholarship by exploring the fluidity of iconography itself over broad spans of time, place, and culture. These wide-ranging case studies take a diversity of approaches as they track the transformation of medieval images and their meanings along their respective paths, exploring how medieval iconographies remained stable or changed; how images were reconceived in response to new contexts, ideas, or viewerships; and how modern thinking about medieval images--including the application or rejection of traditional methodologies--has shaped our understanding of what they signify. These essays demonstrate that iconographic work still holds a critical place within the rapidly evolving discipline of art history as well as within the many other disciplines that increasingly prioritize the study of images. This inaugural volume in the series Signa: Papers of the Index of Medieval Art at Princeton University demonstrates the importance of keeping matters of image and meaning--regardless of whether we use the word "iconography"--at the center of modern inquiry into medieval visual literature. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume are Kirk Ambrose, Charles Barber, Catherine Fernandez, Elina Gertsman, Jacqueline E. Jung, Dale Kinney, and D. Fairchild Ruggles.

Author : Maria G. Parani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004124624

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Reconstructing the Reality of Images by Maria G. Parani Pdf

This examination of realia in Byzantine religious painting provides valuable information on Byzantine dress, household effects and implements, while introducing at the same time an alternative, literally 'objective', approach to the study of the formative processes of Byzantine art.

Author : Udo J. Hebel,Christoph Wagner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110237856

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Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies by Udo J. Hebel,Christoph Wagner Pdf

The pictorial turn in the humanities and social sciences has emphasized the political power of images and the extent to which historical, political, social, and cultural processes and practices are shaped visually. The volume gathers original articles by visual culture studies experts in the fields of Art History, American Studies, History, and Political Science from Europe and the United States. The collection explores the political function and cultural impact of images and how political iconographies interpret norms of actions, support ideological formations, and enhance moral concepts. Visual rhetorics are understood as active players in the construction and contestation of the political realm and public space. Individual essays address concepts and theories for a politics of art and perception, investigate national(ist) forms of political representation on both sides of the Atlantic, and interpret the iconographic repertoires of specific cultures and political systems from the eighteenth century to the immediate present.

Author : Georg Leube
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004541528

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Relational Iconography, Representational Culture at the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu Courts (853/1449 CE to 907/1501 CE) by Georg Leube Pdf

In Relational Iconography Georg Leube engages with the courtly culture of the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu dynasties (15th century C.E.) as a key episode in Persianate and Islamicate cultural history.

Author : Robert Bogdan Klymasz
Publisher : Canadian Museum of History
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000056005634

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The Icon in Canada by Robert Bogdan Klymasz Pdf

Separated from its origins in the Old World, Eastern Christian iconography in Canada has come to enjoy a popular following from coast to coast. The present volume documents this living tradition from a variety of perspectives to offer the first national survey of its kind. Here folklorists join with art historians, anthropologists, a scientist, a theologian, enthusiasts and iconographers to underscore the richness of a phenomenon that continues to captivate large segments of the country's population.