The Political Portrait

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-367-50748-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 734 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Art and Politics

The leader's portrait, produced in a variety of media (statues, coins, billboards, posters, stamps), is a key instrument of propaganda in totalitarian regimes, but increasingly also dominates political communication in democratic countries as a result of the personalization and spectacularization of campaigning.

Written by an international group of contributors, this volume focuses on the last one hundred years, covering a wide range of countries around the globe, and dealing with dictatorial regimes and democratic systems alike. As well as discussing the effigies that are produced by the powers that be for propaganda purposes, it looks at the uses of portraiture by antagonistic groups or movements as forms of resistance, derision, denunciation and demonization.

This volume will be of interest to researchers in visual studies, art history, media studies, cultural studies, politics and contemporary history.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cheles, Luciano

Giacone, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Portraitdarstellung in der Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Totalitarismus & Diktaturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Faces of Politics

Luciano Cheles and Pierre Sorlin

2. Portraits of United States Presidents and National Candidates Past and Present

Steven Seidman

3. Representing Leaders in Britain: The Portraits of Winston Churchill, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair

Simon Downs

4. The Dawn of Political Portraiture in Italy

Maurizio Ridolfi

5. Manufacturing Charisma: Mussolini's Photographic Portraits

Alessandra Antola Swan

6. A Dictator with a Human Face? The Portraits of the Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss

Lucile Dreidemy

7. Franco: When the Portrait Matters More than the Model

Pierre Sorlin

8. The Face of the Regime. Political Portraiture in the Soviet Union and Russia

Graeme Gill

9. Faces of Mao

Stefan Landsberger

10. Monuments in History: Political Portraiture in North Korea

Mary Ginsberg

11. ‘For Our Beloved Leader’: Nicolae Ceausescu's Propaganda Portraits

Manuela Marin

12. The German Chancellors: Visual Strategies for the Image of the Head of State

Manja Wilkens

13. From Reticence to Excess: Political Portraiture in Italy from the Fall of Fascism to the Present

Luciano Cheles

14. The Presidential Portrait in Italy: from Officialdom to Satire

Alessandro Giacone

15. Staging Power in France: Political Portraiture from Mitterrand to Macron

Luciano Cheles

16. Political Portraiture in Early Republican Turkey: Mustafa Atatürk and Ismet Inönü

Christopher Wilson & Sinan Niyazioglu

17. Burning United States Presidents: Protest Effigies in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan

Florian Göttke

Über Autor(innen)

Luciano Cheles is a member of the Laboratoire Universitaire Histoire Cultures Italie Europe of the University of Grenoble Alpes and taught Italian Studies at the University of Poitiers, France.

Alessandro Giacone is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna.