An Anthropology of Images
Picture, Medium, Body
In this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting proposes a new anthropological theory for interpreting human picture making. Rather than focus exclusively on pictures as they are embodied in various media such as painting, sculpture, or photography, he links pictures to our mental images and therefore our bodies. The body is understood as a living medium that produces, perceives, or remembers images that are different from the images we encounter through handmade or technical pictures. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested…
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Weitere Autoren: Dunlap, Thomas (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-691-16096-2
- EAN: 9780691160962
- Produktnummer: 15520425
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.1 cm 442 g
- Abbildungen: 61 halftones.
- Gewicht: 442
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
Über den Autor
Hans Belting has held chairs in art history at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich and has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Columbia, and Northwestern. He also cofounded and taught at the School for New Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. His many books include Likeness and Presence, The End of the History of Art?, The Invisible Masterpiece, Art History after Modernism, and Looking through Duchamp's Door.
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