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An Anthropology of Images : Picture, Medium, Body / Hans Belting.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : 61 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400839780
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301 23/eng/20220718
LOC classification:
  • GN347
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- A New Introduction for the English Reader -- 1 An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body -- 2 The Locus of Images: The Living Body -- 3 The Coat of Arms and the Portrait: Two Media of the Body -- 4 Image and Death -- 5 Media and Bodies: Dante’s Shadows and Greenaway’s TV -- 6 The Transparency of the Medium: The Photographic Image -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the bodyIn 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, An Anthropology of Images presents a challenging and provocative new account of what pictures are and how they function.The book demonstrates these ideas with a series of compelling case studies, ranging from Dante's picture theory to post-photography. One chapter explores the tension between image and medium in two "media of the body," the coat of arms and the portrait painting. Another, central chapter looks at the relationship between image and death, tracing picture production, including the first use of the mask, to early funerary rituals in which pictures served to represent the missing bodies of the dead. Pictures were tools to re-embody the deceased, to make them present again, a fact that offers a surprising clue to the riddle of presence and absence in most pictures and that reveals a genealogy of pictures obscured by Platonic picture theory.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A New Introduction for the English Reader -- 1 An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body -- 2 The Locus of Images: The Living Body -- 3 The Coat of Arms and the Portrait: Two Media of the Body -- 4 Image and Death -- 5 Media and Bodies: Dante’s Shadows and Greenaway’s TV -- 6 The Transparency of the Medium: The Photographic Image -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the bodyIn 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, An Anthropology of Images presents a challenging and provocative new account of what pictures are and how they function.The book demonstrates these ideas with a series of compelling case studies, ranging from Dante's picture theory to post-photography. One chapter explores the tension between image and medium in two "media of the body," the coat of arms and the portrait painting. Another, central chapter looks at the relationship between image and death, tracing picture production, including the first use of the mask, to early funerary rituals in which pictures served to represent the missing bodies of the dead. Pictures were tools to re-embody the deceased, to make them present again, a fact that offers a surprising clue to the riddle of presence and absence in most pictures and that reveals a genealogy of pictures obscured by Platonic picture theory.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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