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

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• VerfasserIn: Belting, Hans,
• MitwirkendeR: Dunlap, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• প্রকাশনার বছর: 2022
• ভাষা: English
• দৈহিক বর্ননা: 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 61 halftones.

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...

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