Title
An Anthropology of Images : Picture, Medium, Body / Hans Belting ; Translated by Thomas Dunlap.
Uniform Title
Bild-Anthropologie. English
ISBN
9780691145006
0691145008
Publication Details
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
v, 207 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Call Number
GN347 .B44613 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
301
Summary
" ... 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.: -- Book jacket.
Note
"First published in Germany under the title Bild-Anthropologie: Entwürfe für eine Bildwissenschaft. ©2001 by Verlag Wilhelm Fink, Munich. ©Second edition 2002 by Verlag Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn/Germany."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A New Introduction for the English Reader
Image, Medium, Body
The Locus of Images: The Living Body
The The Coat of Arms and the Portrait: Two Media of the Body
Image and Death: Embodiment in Early Cultures
Media and Bodies: Dante's Shadows and Greenaway's TV
The Transparency of the Medium: The Photographic Image.
