Introduction

materiality and meaning in social life

Dominik Bartmański, Jeffrey C. Alexander

1-12

Representation, presentation, presence

tracing the homo pictor

Gottfried Boehm

15-23

Iconic power and performance

the role of the critic

Jeffrey C. Alexander

25-35

Iconspicuous revolutions of 1989

culture and contingency in the making of political icons

Dominik Bartmański

39-65

The making of humanitarian visual icons

on the 1921–1923 Russian famine as foundational event

Fuyuki Kurasawa

67-84

Seeing tragedy in the news images of september 11

Wendy Bowler

85-99

The emergence of iconic depth

secular icons in a comparative perspective

Werner Binder

101-116

Shifting extremisms

on the political iconology in contemporary Serbia

Daniel Šuber, Slobodan Karamanić

119-138

The visualization of uncertainty

HIV statistics in public media

Valentin Rauer

139-154

How to make an iconic commodity

the case of Penfolds' Grange wine

Ian Woodward, David Ellison

155-169

Becoming iconic

the cases of Woodstock and Bayreuth

Philip E. Smith

171-183

Body and image

Hans Belting

187-202

Iconic difference and seduction

Bernhard Giesen

203-218

Iconic rituals

towards a social theory of encountering images

Julia Sonnevend

219-232

Visible meanings

Piotr Sztompka

233-245

Afterword

Bernhard Giesen

247-251