Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon

by Martin Kemp

How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a highly original look at the main types of visual icons. Lavishly illustrated with 165 color images, this marvelous work illuminates eleven universally recognized images, both historical and contemporary, to see how they arose and how they continue to function in our culture.

Kemp begins with the stock image of Christ's face, the founding icon--literally,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199581118
• ISBN13: 9780199581115
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 9.8"