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The Emergence of Iconic Depth. Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective

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  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F12%3A00060946" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/12:00060946 - isvavai.cz</a>

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  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The Emergence of Iconic Depth. Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective

  • Original language description

    In the last years, the concept of the ?secular icon? became more and more popular in the field of visual studies. Secular icons are widely regarded as images of extraordinary symbolic power and as carriers of collective emotions and meanings. The following contribution offers a theoretical elaboration and a comparative case study of secular icons. I will first discuss the role of visuality in social life and the relation of image and text. The second part of this study focuses on the sacred in sociologyand modern society in order to clarify in what sense secular icons can be regarded as sacred. Third, I will develop a catalogue of formal criteria for secular icons that can also be viewed as dimensions of iconicity. The fourth part applies this model to the Abu Ghraib photographs, in particular to the image that became the icon of the scandal. The fifth part introduces a comparative case, the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam war.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

    AO - Sociology, demography

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2012

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    Iconic Power. Materiality and Meaning in Social Life

  • ISBN

    9780230340053

  • Number of pages of the result

    16

  • Pages from-to

    101-116

  • Number of pages of the book

    262

  • Publisher name

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Place of publication

    New York; Houndmills

  • UT code for WoS chapter