"Inspired by pictures of Jewish schoolchildren taken in ghettos and internment camps during World War II, Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer's School Photos in Liquid Time: Reframing Difference offers the first extended critical analysis of school photography. Comparing their own c…
Introduction : a portable concept of fascism / Julia Adeney Thomas -- Subjects of a new visual order : fascist Media in 1930s China / Maggie Clinton -- Fascism carved in stone : monuments to loyal spirits in wartime Manchukuo / Paul D. Barclay -- Nazism, everydayness, and specta…
"Visualizing Fascism explores various ways of tracing, displaying, viewing, and interacting with fascism, examining fascism as both a global and aesthetic phenomenon during the twentieth century. It emphasizes transnational and visual qualities in order to refigure ways of estab…
"Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigation, not least its design and patron. Here, in the first full-length interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the authors (an art historian and a …
"Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. By the early first decade of the twenty-first century…
"I saggi, ossia esperimenti, raccolti qui affrontano temi molto diversi tra loro, tutti però legati all'iconografia politica evocata nel sottotitolo. Meno evidente è lo strumento analitico che li accomuna: la nozione di Pathosformeln ('formule di pathos') propesta da Aby Warburg…
A collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons.