Political iconography
Political iconography , also known as political iconology , describes an image science that describes and interprets the artistic staging of political power and rule in painting , photography , film , architecture and sculpture .
Although Erwin Panofsky wanted to differentiate the term iconography as a description of images from the term iconology as an image interpretation, both terms are often used synonymously in practice.
Institutional anchoring
Under the direction of Martin Warnke , political iconography was anchored institutionally:
- as a DFG graduate program Political Iconography (1990–1999) at the Art History Department of the University of Hamburg ,
- and as a department for political iconography in the Hamburg Warburg House , which Warnke financed with funds from the Leibniz Prize awarded to him in 1990 .
literature
- Uwe Fleckner, Martin Warnke and Hendrik Ziegler (eds.): Handbook of political iconography . Vol. 1: Abdication to homage . Vol. 2: imperator to dwarf . 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-57765-9
- Martin Warnke: Political Iconography . In: Sabine Poeschel (Ed.): Iconography. New ways of research . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2010, pp. 72–85, ISBN 978-3-534-21666-6
Remarks
- ^ Erwin Panofsky: Iconography and Iconology. An introduction to the art of the Renaissance . In: Ders .: Meaning in the Visual Art . DuMont, Cologne 2002, p. 36 ff.