{"product_id":"david-diehl-icons","title":"David Diehl: Icons","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the late 1990s, Swiss artist David Diehl has explored the sociopolitical implications of pop-culture phenomena and their para-religious functions, examining how secular culture generates forms of devotion once reserved for religious practice. This 281-page book documents his Icons series: over 70 paintings created between 2013 and 2020 depicting haloed football players in a hagiographic style traditionally used for Christian saints. Each portrait treats figures from Socrates to Zinedine Zidane to Diego Maradona as sacred figures worthy of veneration, deliberately playing with the visual language of religious iconography to examine how football has increasingly occupied spaces that churches once held in European culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiehl's Maradona painting has had a remarkable afterlife: created in his Zurich studio, it returned to Naples after Maradona's death in 2020 and, in its myriad reproduced forms, morphed from art object into genuine devotional image, appearing on murals, prayer cards, and shrines. The book features contributions from filmmaker Asif Kapadia and writer Andres Montenegro. For readers interested in sports culture, contemporary painting, the sociology of fandom, or how secular modernity generates new forms of the sacred.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edition Patrick Frey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44334052311091,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/1931\/1155\/files\/9ccdc5f5c93fc9a3800cf208e7f81d00.webp?v=1779927503","url":"https:\/\/anothercorner.co\/products\/david-diehl-icons","provider":"Another Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}