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Popular Culture and Iconology: Reading Today's Icons as Works of Art

Popular Culture and Iconology: Reading Today's Icons as Works of Art
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Author(s): Pınar Aslan (Bursa Technical University, Turkey)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 14
Source title: Handbook of Research on Consumption, Media, and Popular Culture in the Global Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ozlen Ozgen (Atilim University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8491-9.ch011

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Abstract

This chapter intends to take a look at the concept of iconology with a focus on how it evolved into today's iconicity within the framework of cultural studies, media studies, and women's studies. The relation of icons to popularity and popular culture is paid special attention since icons are the best symbols of the zeitgeist of the era they belong to. The main theory of the literature study is taken from art history, that is Erwin Panofsky's study of iconology, and it is implemented into popular culture which can be summarized as a process of reading contemporary icons as works of art.

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