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082			_a301 BEL
100			_aBelting, Hans.
100			_a;Dunlap, Thomas R.
245			_aAn Anthropology of Images _b: Picture, Medium, Body. _c/ Hans Belting.
260			_aNew Jersey _b : Princeton University Press _c, 2014.
300			_a207 p. ill. _c: 24cm.
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520			_aIn 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.
650			_aVisual sociology
650			_aVisual anthropology
650			_aEthnology in art
700			_a Hans Belting
942			_cBOOK
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