An Anthropology of Images (Record no. 67332)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691160962
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address : 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New delhi.
Bill Number : TB4111
Bill Date : 17/03/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 301 BEL
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Belting, Hans.
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name ;Dunlap, Thomas R.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title An Anthropology of Images
Remainder of title : Picture, Medium, Body.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Hans Belting.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Jersey
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Princeton University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2014.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 207 p. ill.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2352
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc In 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.<br/><br/>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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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Visual sociology
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Visual anthropology
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ethnology in art
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hans Belting
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 20/03/2026 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 2352.00   301 BEL 31407 20/03/2026 20/03/2026 Books
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