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"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 directi...
A History of the Image Before the Era of Art
Before the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of th...
A Double History
A cultural history of the face in Western art, ranging from portraiture in painting and photography to film, theater, and mass media This fascinating ...
Picture, Medium, Body
A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the body In this groundbreaking book, renowned art historian Hans Belting propos...
The 'invisible masterpiece' is an unattainable ideal, a work into which a dream of absolute art is incorporated but can never be realized. By means of...
A Troublesome Relationship
This study focuses on the attitudes Germans have towards their art from the Romantic period to the present, and discusses the ways they have tried to ...
Mit dem Steckenpferd unterwegs
Ernst H. Gombrich, the Art Historian, master of both Continental thought and English language, became one of the world's most well-known representativ...
Audiences, Markets, and Museums
This is the second publication from the ongoing research series, Global Art and the Museum (GAM), which was initiated in 2001 by German art historian ...
Renaissance Art and Arab Science
In this lavishly illustrated study, Belting deals with the double history of perspective, as a visual theory based on geometrical abstraction (in the ...
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"Hans Belting avoids interpreting Hieronymus Bosch's triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, as a heretical masterpiece, a personal examination of t...
An Atelier of Late Byzantine Book Illumination and Calligraphy
Twee essays over de methodologie van het vak kunstgeschiedenis....
Form and Function of Early Paintings of the Passion
Museum Photographs
A new ed. of Struth's "Museum photographs", adding 26 additional images which include pictures of artworks at their original locations....
Tradition as a Problem in Modern Art
Art and Perspective in the Work of Duchamp, Sugimoto, Jeff Wall
"In this new book by Hans Belting, three monographic essays are united by one common problem the need for perspective after the end of perspective in ...
Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice
Praised by Albrecht Dürer as being “the best in painting,” Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430– 1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of ...
The Passions
Renowned video artist Viola participates in a conversation that provides new insight into his current interests, his creative process, and the images ...
durchs Fenster
This volume focuses on the photography of multimedia artist Sabine Hornig (born 1964), in particular the Windows series, begun in 2001, which now comp...
"Adel Abdessemed. Works (1988-2015)" offers the comprehensive entry into the international artist's work. Adel Abdessemed has created over recent deca...
The Landscapes
Max Beckmann is one of the titans of modernism, although he considered himself the last Old Master. This publication examines the artist's landscape p...
Né en 1971 à Constantine, d'origine berbère, Adel Abdessemed était à l'école des Beaux-Arts d'Alger au moment de la montée du Front islamique d...
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Universit'at M'unchen)....
An American-European Dialogue
The American painter, musician, and filmmaker Larry Rivers (* 1923 in New York City;? 2002 ibid.) is considered one of the most influential protagonis...
"The publication (...) is divided in three volumes. The first contains analytical, in-depth essays, organized thematically around several specific asp...