Anna Schober - Popularisation and Populism in the Visual Arts: Attraction Images

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 playthe 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 practiceswhich can assume populist formsoperate 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.

Anna Schober is Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Cultural Analysis at Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Austria.

Cover image: Michle Magema, The Triptych, 2011, digital print on baryta paper, 160 120 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Copyright: Bildrecht Vienna, 2019. Photo: Adagp, Paris, 2019.

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Nina Bandi is a philosopher and political theorist teaching at the Zurich University of the Arts and working as a PhD researcher at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. Her research interests include the interplay of politics and aesthetics as well as the relationship between gendered bodies, technology and materiality from a feminist perspective. She has a BA in political science from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and an MA in social and political thought from the University of Sussex (UK). Her publications include Kunst, Krise, Subversion. Zur Politik der sthetik (2012) and What Can Art Do. Zur gesellschaftlichen Relevanz von politisch engagierter Kunst (2019) (both as editor and author). She is based in Zurich and Vienna.

Lynda Dematteo graduated from Sciences Po Lille (1996) and obtained her PhD in social anthropology at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris (2002). After working as an assistant professor at the Charles de Gaulle University of Lille III, she won a scholarship from the Montreal Center for International Studies for a postdoctoral internship (20042006). In 2008, she was recruited by the French CNRS to carry out studies on the impact of globalisation on political life, and she is currently a lecturer at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS). In the book, Lidiotie en politique, a continuation of her PhD thesis, published by the French CNRS ditions in 2007 and by the Italian editor Feltrinelli in 2011, she develops an anthropological study of the Northern League, based on classical analyses of the rituals of inversion. As a specialist in Italian politics, she has conducted numerous field research studies on Northern Italy, the transnational networks of the textile industry and the globalisation of Made in Italy. She is developing an anthropological analysis of political tensions and populist movements in the European and American contexts.

Elisabeth Fritz (Seminar fr Kunstgeschichte und Filmwissenschaft, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitt Jena, Germany) is assistant professor at the Chair of Art History of the University of Jena, Germany. Since her double graduation studies in art history and sociology in Vienna and Paris she has worked as curatorial assistant, art educator and author at several art institutions in Vienna. She has taught art history at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2009 she has been a doctorate fellow at the postgraduate programme Categories and Typologies in Cultural Studies at the University of Graz, where she received her doctors degree in art history in 2012 with a dissertation on the subject Media experiments with real people in contemporary art between authenticity, participation and spectacle. In her current habilitation project she analyses figurations of sociability in French art of the 18th century. Her last publication is Spektakel als sthetische Kategorie: Theorien und Praktiken (2018), co-edited with Simon Frisch and Rita Rieger.

Raul Gschrey (GCSC, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and Frankfurt Academy of Applied Sciences) on the academic staff of the Frankfurt Academy of Applied Sciences. He is currently working on his PhD thesis at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. His issue-specific publications include A surprising air of reality Kompositfotografie zwischen Wissenschaft und Kunst, in: Ulrich Richtmeyer (ed.), Phantomgesichter: Zur Sicherheit und Unsicherheit im biometrischen berwachungsbild (2014), and Der typische Deutsche, in: RespektiveZeitbuch fr Gegenblicke 02 (2011): Gewalt, Angst und Politik.

Philipp Kleinmichel studied philosophy, art and media theory in Freiburg, Karlsruhe, and New York. He worked as a critical studies fellow at the Independent Studies Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art and as an art, business and science scholar at the Akademie Schloss Solitude. Since 2018 he has held a postdoc position on art theory and curatorial practices at the Department of Communication, Culture & Management at the Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen. He has also taught art theory and aesthetics at Justus-Liebig University Gieen, the University of Hamburg and the UDK Berlin among others. His current research focuses on the transformation of art and mass culture in the digital age. Philipp Kleinmichel is the author of