Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon; Martin Kemp

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1 Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon; Martin Kemp 2012; OUP Oxford, 2012; Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon; , ; Martin Kemp; 368 pages; Image, branding, and logos are obsessions of our age. Iconic images dominate the media. Christ to Coke is the first book to look at all the main types of visual icons. It does so via eleven supreme and mega-famous examples, both historical and contemporary, to see how they arose and how they continue to function. Along the way, we encounter the often weird and wonderful ways that they become transformed in an astonishing variety of ways and contexts. How, for example, has the communist revolutionary Che become a romantic hero for middle-class teenagers? The stock image of Christ's face is the founding icon - literally, since he was the central subject of early icon painting. Some of the icons that follow are general, like the cross, the lion, and the heart-shape. Some are specific, such as the Mona Lisa, Che Guevara, and the famous photograph of the napalmed girl in Vietnam. The American flag, the "Stars and Stripes", does not quite fit into either category. Modern icons come from commerce, led by the Coca-Cola bottle, and from science, most notably the double helix of DNA and Einstein's famous equation E=mc2. The stories, researched using the skills of a leading visual historian, are told in a vivid and personal manner. Some are funny; some are deeply moving; some are highly improbable; some centre on popular fame; others are based on the most profound ideas in science. The diversity is extraordinary. There is no set formula, but do the images share anything in common? So famous are the images that every reader is an expert in their own right and will be entertained and challenged by the

2 narratives that Martin Kemp skilfully weaves around them. file download cyhyce.pdf Art; Leonardo da Vinci and the art of sculpture; Oct 27, 2009; Leonardo da Vinci ( ) is renowned as a painter, designer, draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist, and theorist. His work as a sculptor is not commonly acknowledged; 216 pages; ISBN: ; Gary M. Radke, Leonardo (da Vinci), Martin Kemp, High Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum 101 pages; Art; ISBN: ; On Painting; 1991; Leon Alberti, Martin Kemp; In his discussion of painting Alberti writes of the process of vision, how the painter can present with his hand what he has understood with his mind, and the moral and Coke: Becomes The Science of Art; 375 pages; This work, one of the most lucidly written art history books in recent memory, addresses a topic of inherent complexity and great recent interest. Kemp (Univ. of St. Andrews; Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat; Martin Kemp; ISBN: ; Art; 1990 How pdf 1992; UOM: ; Martin Kemp, National Gallery of Scotland; Art; Leonardo da Vinci, the mystery of the Madonna of the yarnwinder; 96 pages 2000; The Nature Book of Art and Science; Martin Kemp is the author of the widely acclaimed weekly pages "Art and Science" and "Science and Image" which have been appearing in Nature since In this visually; Visualizations; Art and science; ISBN: ; 202 pages; Martin Kemp 1997; Art and Evidence in the Italian Renaissance; 314 pages; Art; ISBN: ; Considers the business of picture-making in the Renaissance. In particular, the text discusses the role of the artist and the

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5 Martin Kemp; ISBN: ; Positions works of art in illustration groups to create a visual environment and historical context to enhance understanding and appreciation; 2000; The Oxford History of Western Art; 564 pages; Art 176 pages; 2009; artists, scientists and the history of the visual : a volume dedicated to Martin Kemp; STANFORD: ; Art; Acts of seeing; Assimina Kaniari, Marina Wallace, Martin Kemp Icon