Face and Mask (eBook)

A Double History

Hans Belting (Autor)

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2022
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24459-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass mediaThis 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 representation.Belting divides his book into three parts: faces as masks of the self, portraiture as a constantly evolving mask in Western culture, and the fate of the face in the age of mass media. Referencing a vast array of sources, Belting's insights draw on art history, philosophy, theories of visual culture, and cognitive science. He demonstrates that Western efforts to portray the face have repeatedly failed, even with the developments of new media such as photography and film, which promise ever-greater degrees of verisimilitude. In spite of sitting at the heart of human expression, the face resists possession, and creative endeavors to capture it inevitably result in masks-hollow signifiers of the humanity they're meant to embody.From creations by Van Eyck and August Sander to works by Francis Bacon, Ingmar Bergman, and Chuck Close, Face and Mask takes a remarkable look at how, through the centuries, the physical visage has inspired and evaded artistic interpretation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.6.2022
• Übersetzer: Abby J. Hansen, Thomas S. Hansen
• Zusatzinfo: 53 color + 51 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Aby Warburg • Act of Violence • Adolphe Quetelet • Advertising • affection • Alfred Stieglitz • Allegory • Alphonse Bertillon • Ambiguity • Analogy • Andy Warhol • Anecdote • anonymity • Anthropomorphism • Antonello da Messina • Arnulf Rainer • Art Institute of Chicago • asymmetry • a thousand plateaus • August Sander • Bandage • Behind A Mask • bembo • biometrics • Bourgeoisie • brain • Bruce Nauman • bureaucrat • Bust/waist/hip measurements • Canvas print • Caput mortuum • Caravaggio • Cemetery • Christian Boltanski • Christopher Makos • Chuck Close • Cindy Sherman • Civil Society • Close-up • Coat of Arms • commodification • consumer • Court Painter • creation myth • Criticism • critique • Cubism • Cultural History • Cultural Studies • death mask • Description • Dictatorship • distrust • Domenico Fetti • Easel • Edgar Allan Poe • Emblem • Epigraphy • Euripides • Excarnation • facial expression • Facsimile • Family resemblance • Film theory • Fine Art • Fine-art photography • First appearance • Francis Bacon (artist) • Free Will • Gender Role • Genre • Gertrude Stein • Gesture • Giambattista Della Porta • Giorgio Vasari • Good and evil • Hans Belting • Hans Memling • homo duplex • idealization • Illustration • Inception • In Death • Indication (medicine) • Jacques Le Goff • Jan van Eyck • Jaw • Jean Cocteau • Judith Butler • Knife Fight • Laboratory • Lighting • Lucas Cranach the Elder • Ludwig Binswanger • male privilege • Man Ray • Marcel Duchamp • Marilyn Monroe • Mask • Mass media • Mathew Brady • Mineralization (geology) • Minneapolis Institute of Art • Mirror writing • Modernity • Modern sculpture • Moisture • Mummy • Museum • Mythology • Nam June Paik • new people • Nicolas Poussin • Objectivity (science) • obsolescence • oil sketch • Omnipresence • On the Eve • Ontology • Oppression • Originale • Pablo Picasso • painting • Paradigm Shift • Paul Klee • Philip Melanchthon • photography • Phrenology • Physiognomy • picture plane • Plaster cast • Polemic • Pop Art • Pope Innocent X • portrait painting • Primitivism • printing • Psychoanalysis • Quintilian • Rainer Maria Rilke • Recast (language teaching) • religious experience • Robert Campin • Roland Barthes • Romanticism • Sebastiano del Piombo • self-portrait • seriousness • Sex differences in humans • Silent Film • Slavery • Social Statistics • Sociology • Sophistication • spouse • Stephen Greenblatt • Struggle (TV series) • Surrealism • Symbolic Power • Tattoo • Technology • Television • Temperament • Temperate forest • Temperature • The Human Face • The loved one • The Other Hand • The Philosopher • The Praise of Folly • Topicality (policy debate) • Vassal • Verism • visual perception • Wallpaper • Walter Benjamin • William Hogarth • Yves Klein
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24459-6 / 0691244596
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24459-4 / 9780691244594