David Diehl: Icons: A Directory of Canonizations Around the Turn of the Millenium - Hardcover

by David Diehl (Artist), Andrés Montenegro Rosero (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Asif Kapadia (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

Saintlike portraits of soccer stars that play on the relationship between the church and sports

Few things are more exalted than a great athlete, and the Icons paintings by David Diehl (born 1976) emphasize this parareligious worship to fanatical effect. Comprising over 70 portraits of haloed soccer players from Sócrates to Maradona, the series applies a hagiographical treatment to secular heroes.