"The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin. The art world distributed itself into art worlds. With the emergence of new art scenes in Asia and the Middle East and the explosion of biennials, the visu ..."
"Max Beckmann was among the greatest painters of the 20th century, yet no retrospective of his work has been mounted in the art capitals of New York, London, and Paris in over 30 years. Perhaps the lapse of attention has to do with the importance of abstraction in 20th-century art, and Beckmann's work is always figurative, simultaneously muscular and enigmatic and has enormous and unsettling power. Beckmann began his career as a naturali ..."
"Human emotions are the subject of "The Passions", a series of 20 video works made by the contemporary artist Bill Viola (b. 1951). Since the mid-1970s, Viola's video installations have dealt with themes of perception, memory and self-knowledge. In these new works he has grappled with one of the oldest problems in art: how to convey the power and complexity of emotion by depicting the facial expressions and body language of models or, in ..."
"Human emotions are the subject of "The Passions", a series of 20 video works made by the contemporary artist Bill Viola (b. 1951). Since the mid-1970s, Viola's video installations have dealt with themes of perception, memory and self-knowledge. In these new works he has grappled with one of the oldest problems in art: how to convey the power and complexity of emotion by depicting the facial expressions and body language of models or, in ..."
"This is the third volume in Hans Belting and Peter Weibel's "Global Art and the Museum "series, which analyzes how globalization affects the industry of contemporary art. Alongside case studies of individual artists, "Global Studies" outlines the histories of various regional art practices, exhibitions and ideologies. Among the topics covered are Indonesia's art market bubble; Austrian documentary filmmakers "Intersections "series; Zimb ..."
"All over the world, contemporary art is moving into traditional museums, its institutionalization an ongoing proposition with swiftly evolving practices. And more than ever before, the art of the moment is being made and collected internationally. Global art production is affecting museums everywhere, even those in traditional centers of cultural influence. For international artists, the question is how to get themselves and their work ..."
"The sixth and final volume of the Imagination Becomes Reality series, featuring works from the renowned Goetz Collection in Munich, includes a selection of works by 50 of the most interesting and relevant artists of our day, all of whom expand on the discourse of painting without ever being limited to one medium. Ingvild Goetz remarks: "Many artists expand the medium of painting in sculpture, photography and video; that is, they 'paint' ..."
"Call me Istanbul ist mein Name: Kunst und urbane Visionen einer Metapolis * ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst u. Medientehnologie Karlsruhe. 18. April- 8 Aug. 2004. Eine Ausstellung im Rahmen der 17. Europäischen Kulturtage Karlsruhe 2004 * Versand innerhalb 24h, Rechnung mit ausgewiesener MwSt, zuverlässiger Service"
"Trotz der gegenwärtigen Konjunktur der Kunst und des Ästhetischen hat sich seit Adorno und Heidegger keine übergreifende, in ein philosophisches Gesamtkonzept eingebettete ästhetische Theorie mehr ausbilden können und die Kunst scheint sich im Durchspielen schon gewonnener Positionen zu erschöpfen. Die Verabschiedungen der Postmoderne haben nur gezeigt, daß sich bereits zu Beginn der Moderne ineinander verhakte Positionen ausgebildet ha ..."
Face and Mask A Double History by HansBelting 288 Pages, Published 2022 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24459-4, ISBN: 0-691-24459-6
"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, ..."
Bodies and Pictures Toward an Anthropology of the Image (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) by HansBelting Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14016-4, ISBN: 0-231-14016-9
"Praised by Albrecht Durer as being "the best in painting," Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430- 1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time. His landscapes assume a prominence unseen in Western art since classical antiquity. Drawing from a selection of masterpieces that span Bellini's long and successful career, this exhibition catalogue focuses on the main function ..."
"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 emphasize ..."
"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 ..."
"Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Universit'at M'unchen)."
Florence and Baghdad Renaissance Art and Arab Science by HansBelting, Deborah Lucas Schneider Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2011 by Belknap Press Abridged, Audiobook, Box Set, Illustrated, Large Print ISBN-13: 978-0-674-05004-4, ISBN: 0-674-05004-5
"The use of perspective in Renaissance painting caused a revolution in the history of seeing, allowing artists to depict the world from a spectator's point of view. But the theory of perspective that changed the course of Western art originated elsewhere--it was formulated in Baghdad by the eleventh-century mathematician Ibn al Haithan, known in the West as Alhazen. Using the metaphor of the mutual gaze, or exchanged glances, Hans Beltin ..."
"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 ..."