Hebel / Wagner Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies

Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-023786-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 445 Seiten

The pictorial turn in the humanities and social sciences has foregrounded the political power of images and the extent to which historical, political, social, and cultural processes and practices are shaped visually. Political iconographies are taken to 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. The twenty-one articles by scholars from Europe and the United States explore the political function and cultural impact of images from the perspectives of Art History, American Studies, Visual Culture Studies, History, and Political Science. The contributions in particular address the complex interplay between agent and addressee in the public space as well as issues of national identity, discourses of inclusion and exclusion, and the designation of political spaces within transnational contexts. The publication is part of the interdisciplinary research initiative “Perceiving and Understanding: Functions, Perception Processes, Forms of Visualizations, Cultural Strategies of Pictures and Texts” at the University of Regensburg.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hebel, Udo J.

Wagner, Christoph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Introduction;8
3;Why Is There No Political Science of the Arts?;14
4;Rubens’s Pictorial Peacekeeping Force: Negotiating through ‘Visual Speech-Acts;34
5;Political Iconography and the Picture Act: The Execution of Charles I in 1649;64
6;“The Conqueror of Canada” – Benjamin West and the Heroes of Sentimentalism;86
7;Nationalism and Truth in Grant Wood’s;106
8;Masculinity, Sexuality, and the German Nation: The Eulenburg Scandals and Kaiser Wilhelm II in Political Cartoons;120
9;Bauhaus, the Radio, and the Colors of Fascism;144
10;Adolf Hitler’s (Self-)Fashioning as a Genius: The Visual Politics of National Socialism’s Cult of Genius;164
11;The Grammar of Postrevolutionary Visual Politics: Comparing Presidential Stances of George Washington and Friedrich Ebert;178
12;Making the Invisible Visible: The Public Persona of Malcolm X;200
13;The New Face of American Anger: Internet Imagery and the Power of Contagious Feeling;220
14;Photographing American Indians: An Imaginary Exhibition;236
15;The “Other” Country in the City: Urban Space and the Politics of Visibility in American Social Documentary Photography;254
16;Taming the Teeming Masses: Visualizing Order at Ellis Island;274
17;Replacing the President: Cecil Stoughton’s “Lyndon B. Johnson Taking the Oath of Office" and the Iconography of U.S. American Presidential Inaugurations;292
18;Souvenirs from the Landscapes of Modernity: Richard Misrach, Camilo Vergara, and the Visual Politics of Ruin;316
19;The Trouble with Atrocity Photography in Gerhard Richter, Robert Morris and Alfredo Jaar, or, Art on the Brink of Failure;356
20;Must-See Sights: The Politics of Representing U.S.-American History;378
21;Body, Building, City, and Environment: Iconography in the Mexican Megalopolis;402
22;Aesthetics and Political Iconography of Money;420
23;Notes on Contributors;430
24;Index;436

Über Autor(innen)

Udo J. Hebel und Christoph Wagner, Universität Regensburg.

Udo J. Hebel and Christoph Wagner, University of Regensburg, Germany.