Triumph of the Iconic over the Image
The iconic Ian Penman/The Pillbox's on-going hilarious, ominous dread-sequence of posts concerning the contemporary ubiquitous ironic-iconic-ic[hr]onic fetish, here, there, thereabouts, and hereabouts, might virtiginously benefit from some added uncompromising despair ...
The most iconic entertainers of
bryce lankard is iconic
ICONIC TURN - Willkommen
... Robot: Ever Closer to Iconic Status
... iconic image: Clark Kent
Iconic Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch...
Iconic Eisenhower en España, 1959
An iconic group of soldiers
Iconic Images of War
Iconic Phare
30th anniversary of Iconic Apollo 11
Iconic Iconic Iconic
Iconic cat-lover voted out of the Big Brother House.
Iconic Rebel British Lawmaker Galloway Censored
If you [repeatedly] throw enough shit against the wall, some of it's bound to stick ...
posted by Padraig at 12:46 AM
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Hi, I've been roped into teaching a course on icons & iconicity, as it happens. If you have any suggestions on relevant theoretical stuff, I wonder if you might email me:
Mark_b_kaplan@hotmail.com
Hi Mark,
Thanks for your inquiry.
As the topic is so tied in with semiotics/semiology it isn't always easy to isolate. Nevertheless, I hope a few of the following links/references will be of some - central - assistance:
The names Umberto Eco, Christian Metz, and Charles S Pierce immediately come to mind.
That There Are Many Kinds of Iconic Signs, Göran Sonesson
http://www.arthist.lu.se/kultsem/sonesson/many_iconic1.html#iconicity
Iconicity in Language and Literature [abstracts of papers on examples of Iconicity in the arts]
http://home.hum.uva.nl/iconicity/conferences/1999/1999abstracts.html#Iconicity%20in%20Myth-Making
Umberto Eco’s A Theory of Semiotics
http://www.angelfire.com/md2/timewarp/eco.html
Also Umberto Eco’s Travels in Hyperreality , with reference to iconic images in Casablanca.
http://www.celluloidtunes.com/nostalgia2.htm
Christian Metz - review of film language
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC05folder/FilmLangMetz.html
Very introductory Drive-Thru Film Theory Semiotics
http://afronord.tripod.com/theory.html
Semiotics: Reading List
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem12a.html
Is this on the right track?
[given the current world response to certain [iconic] "cartoons," such a course should certainly prove topical ... :-)]
You might also be interested in the work of Richard Stites, see esp. top result here.
Thanks for that ref Matt.
Some amazing imagery there revealed, despite Lenin's preoccupation with "getting the Word out".
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