Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the Holy. In this book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its changing role in European culture. It looks at the beliefs, sup[...]

""Art history after modernism" does not only mean that art looks different today; it also means that our discourse on art has taken a different direction, if it is safe to say it has taken a direction at all."

So begins Hans Belting's brilliant, iconoclastic reconsideration of art and ar[...]

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 i[...]

Hans Belting setzt sich hier mit Fragestellungen seines zum Klassiker gewordenen Werks Bild und Kult erneut auseinander. Sein altes Thema, die Bedeutung des Bildes in der europäischen Kultur, beleuchtet er hier jedoch im Licht der von ihm begründeten Bild-Anthropologie. Dabei zeigt sich, wie s[...]