TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belting,Hans
AU  - Dunlap,Thomas
TI  - An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body 
SN  - 9781400839780
AV  - GN347 
U1  - 301 23/eng/20220718
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Ethnology in art
KW  - Visual anthropology
KW  - Visual sociology
KW  - ART / Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Alex Katz
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Analogy
KW  - Anecdote
KW  - Anthropology of art
KW  - Anthropology of media
KW  - Antithesis
KW  - Aphorism
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Art criticism
KW  - Art history
KW  - Art
KW  - Body image
KW  - Camera Work
KW  - Camera
KW  - Case study
KW  - Close-up
KW  - Coat of arms
KW  - Conceptual art
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Countermovement
KW  - Creation myth
KW  - Creative work
KW  - Cultural anthropology
KW  - Cultural geography
KW  - Cultural heritage
KW  - Cultural history
KW  - Cultural memory
KW  - Dichotomy
KW  - Emblem
KW  - Emerging technologies
KW  - Escutcheon (heraldry)
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Film theory
KW  - Fine art
KW  - Funerary art
KW  - Genre
KW  - Georges Bataille
KW  - Gudea
KW  - Historical anthropology
KW  - Historicity
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Human figure (aesthetics)
KW  - Humanism
KW  - Humanities
KW  - Iconicity
KW  - Iconoclasm
KW  - Iconography
KW  - Iconology
KW  - Illustration
KW  - Imagery
KW  - Inference
KW  - Intentionality
KW  - Invention
KW  - Mark So
KW  - Masaccio
KW  - Medium theory
KW  - Mental image
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Metonymy
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Necromancy
KW  - Neuromancer
KW  - On Photography
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Photogram
KW  - Photograph
KW  - Photography
KW  - Photojournalism
KW  - Physiognomy
KW  - Pictorialism
KW  - Pigment
KW  - Primitive culture
KW  - Primitivism
KW  - Propaganda
KW  - Provenance
KW  - Religious image
KW  - Reproducibility
KW  - Secularization
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Sightline
KW  - Simulacrum
KW  - Social anthropology
KW  - Special effect
KW  - Special rights
KW  - Structural anthropology
KW  - Subtitle (captioning)
KW  - Symptom
KW  - Technology
KW  - Terminology
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thought
KW  - Uniqueness
KW  - Visual artifact
KW  - Visual arts
KW  - Visual culture
KW  - Visual rhetoric
KW  - Work of art
KW  - Writing
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400839780?locatt=mode:legacy
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