1st Edition
Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts Attraction Images
Introduction - Anna Schober; Chapter One: The Popular in Philosophy. Notes on a pluralistic concept of democratic enlightenment - Marc Rölli; Chapter Two: From Marianne to Louise: Three ways of Representing the (European) People in Democratic Societies - Wim Weymans; Chapter Three: Becoming Ordinary: The Ludic Politics of the Everyday -Veronika Zink and Philipp Kleinmichel; Chapter Four: Particular faces with universal appeal: A genealogy and typology of everybodies -Anna Schober; Chapter Five: The Mask and the Vanity Wound. Contemporary Populism through Canetti’s insight - Lynda Dematteo; Chapter Six: Facing Everybody? Composite Portraiture as Representation of a Common Face- Raul Gschrey; Chapter Seven: Contemporary Newsreel and New Everybody Figures as Mediators in Late Democracies - Andrej Šprah; Chapter Eight: Making of a common woman figure: Convergence and struggle of visual practices around Gezi’s icon - Ragip Zik; Chapter Nine: Duane Hanson’s Man on Mower – A Suburban American Everybody in the Mid-1990s -Viola Rühse; Chapter Ten: Devenir tout le monde: A Deleuzian Perspective on the Everybody between Political Practice and Visual Culture - Nina Bandi; Chapter Eleven: Contagion Images: Faciality, Viral Affect and the Logic of the Grab on Tumblr - Elena Pilipets; Chapter Twelve: The Usual Difference: Everybodies as Participants in Contemporary Art and the Spectacle of Changing Relations - Elisabeth Fritz
Biography
Anna Schober is Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Cultural Analysis at Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria.
"All chapters of the book amount to an impression of a surprisingly consistent sum of articulations, which do provide new insights into the book’s enormously challenging subject matter. Therefore, the book sets up a new benchmark of dealing with the urgently needed sharpening of knowledge and understanding of its topics and problems."
--Visual Studies
