BELTING HANS

(H/B) FACE AND MASK
A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media. This fascinating book presents the first cultural history and anthropology of the face across centuries, continents, and media. Ranging from funerary masks and masks in drama to the figural work of contemporary artists including Cindy Sherman and Nam June Paik, renowned art historian Hans Belting emphasizes that while the face plays a critical role in human communication, it defies attempts at visual repres...
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(H/B) AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF IMAGES
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 ...
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(P/B) LOOKING THROUGH DUCHAMP'S DOOR

(P/B) HIERONYMUS BOSCH