This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appeal to "all of us". One key figure these practices bring into play—the "everybody" (which stands for "all of us" and is sometimes a "new man" or a "new woman")—is discussed in an interdisciplinary way involving scholars from several European countries. A key aspect is how popularisation and communication practices—which can assume populist forms—operate in contemporary democracies and where their genealogies lie. A second focus is on the ambivalences of attraction, i.e. on the ways in which visual creations can evoke desire as well as hatred.
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"All chapters of the book amount to an impression of a surprisingly consistent sum of articulations, which do provide new insights into the books 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
List of figures
vii
List of contributors
xi
Acknowledgements
xv
Introduction
1
(17)
Anna Schober
1 The Popular in Philosophy: Notes on a Pluralistic Concept of Democratic Enlightenment
18
(13)
Marc Rolli
2 From Marianne to Louise: Three Ways of Representing the (European) People in Democratic Societies
31
(15)
Wim Weymans
3 Becoming Ordinary: The Ludic Politics of the Everyday
46
(13)
Veronika Zink
Philipp Kleinmichel
4 Particular Faces with Universal Appeal: A Genealogy and Typology of Everybodies
59
(21)
Anna Schober
5 The Mask and the Vanity Wound: Contemporary Populism through Canetti's Insight
80
(14)
Lynda Dematteo
6 Facing Everybody? Composite Portraiture as Representation of a Common Face
94
(16)
Raul Gschrey
7 Contemporary Newsreel and New Everybody Figures as Mediators in Late Democracies
110
(14)
Andrej Sprah
8 The Making of a Common Woman Figure: Convergence and Struggle of Visual Practices around Gezi's Icon
124
(14)
M. Ragip Zik
9 Duane Hanson's Man on Mower: A Suburban American Everybody in the Mid-1990s
138
(14)
Viola Ruhse
10 Devenir Tout le Monde: A Deleuzian Perspective on the Everybody between Political Practice and Visual Culture
152
(11)
Nina Bandi
11 Contagion Images: Faciality, Viral Affect and the Logic of the Grab on Tumblr
163
(20)
Elena Pilipets
12 The Usual Difference: Everybodies as Participants in Contemporary Art and the Spectacle of Changing Relations
183
(15)
Elisabeth Fritz
Index
198
Anna Schober is Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Cultural Analysis at Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria.
