Iconic Power

1. Introduction: Materiality and Meaning in Social Life: Toward an Iconic Turn in Cultural Sociology
Dominik Bartmański, Jeffrey C. Alexander

2. Representation, Presentation, Presence: Tracing the Homo Pictor
Gottfried Boehm

3. Iconic Power and Performance: The Role of the Critic
Jeffrey C. Alexander

4. Iconspicuous Revolutions of 1989: Culture and Contingency in the Making of Political Icons
Dominik Bartmański

5. The Making of Humanitarian Visual Icons: On the 1921–1923 Russian Famine as Foundational Event
Fuyuki Kurasawa

6. Seeing Tragedy in the News Images of September 11
Wendy Bowler

7. The Emergence of Iconic Depth: Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective
Werner Binder

8. Shifting Extremisms: On the Political Iconology in Contemporary Serbia
Daniel Šuber, Slobodan Karamanić

9. The Visualization of Uncertainty: HIV Statistics in Public Media
Valentin Rauer

10. How to Make an Iconic Commodity: The Case of Penfolds’ Grange Wine
Ian Woodward, David Ellison

11. Becoming Iconic: The Cases of Woodstock and Bayreuth
Philip Smith

12. Body and Image
Hans Belting

13. Iconic Difference and Seduction
Bernhard Giesen

14. Iconic Rituals: Towards a Social Theory of Encountering Images
Julia Sonnevend

15. Visible Meanings
Piotr Sztompka

16. Afterword
Bernhard Giesen

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of Culture, Sociology, general, Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies