An Anthropology of Images : : Picture, Medium, Body /

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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Belting, Hans,
MitwirkendeR:
Dunlap, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2011
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 61 halftones.
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Table of 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

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