02295nam a22002417a 4500 20260320110648.0 260320b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780691160962 : Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. : 4794/23, 1st Floor, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New delhi. : TB4111 : 17/03/2026 301 BEL Belting, Hans. ;Dunlap, Thomas R. An Anthropology of Images : Picture, Medium, Body. / Hans Belting. New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 2014. 207 p. ill. : 24cm. 2352 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. 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. Visual sociology Visual anthropology Ethnology in art Hans Belting BOOK 67332 67332 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-03-20 Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. 2352.00 0 301 BEL 31407 2026-03-20 11:07:40 2026-03-20 BOOK