Iconic Power

Materiality and Meaning in Social Life: Toward an Iconic Turn in Cultural Sociology; D.Bartmanski  & J.Alexander   PART I  Representation, Presentation, Presence: Tracing the Homo Pictor; G.Boehm  Iconic Power and Performance: the Role of the Critic; J.Alexander   PART II  Inconspicuous Revolutions of 1989. Culture and Contingency in The Making of Political Icons; D.Bartmanski   The Making of Humanitarian Visual Icons. On the 1921-1923 Russian Famine as Foundational Event; F.Kurasawa   Seeing Tragedy in the News Images of September 11; W.Bowler  The Emergence of Iconic Depth. Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective; W.Binder   PART III  Shifting Extremism: On the Political Iconology in Post-socialist Serbia; D.Šuber  & S.Karamanic   The Visualization of Uncertainty: HIV Statistics in Public Media; V.Rauer  How To Make an Iconic Commodity: The Case of Penfolds' Grange Wine; I.Woodward  & D.Ellison   Becoming Iconic. The Cases of Woodstock and Bayreuth; P.Smith   PART IV  Body and Image; H.Belting Iconic Difference and Seduction; B.Giesen   Iconic Rituals. Towards a Social Theory of Encountering Images; J.Sonnevend   Visible Meanings; P.Sztompka   Afterword; B.Giesen