Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art - Couverture souple

Belting, Hans

 
9780226042152: Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226042154 ISBN 13 : 9780226042152
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1997

Synopsis

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 magisterial book, Hans Belting traces the long history of the sacral image and its changing role in European culture.
Likeness and Presence looks at the beliefs, superstitions, hopes, and fears that come into play as people handle and respond to sacred
images, and presents a compelling interpretation of the place of the image in Western history.

"A rarity within its genre-an art-historical analysis of iconography which is itself iconoclastic. . . . One of the most intellectually exciting and historically grounded interpretations of Christian iconography." -Graham Howes, Times Literary Supplement

"Likeness and Presence offers the best source to survey the facts of what European Christians put in their churches. . . . An impressively detailed contextual analysis of medieval objects." -Robin Cormack, New York Times Book Review

"I cannot begin to describe the richness or the imaginative grandeur of Hans Belting's book. . . . It is a work that anyone interested in art, or in the history of thought about art, should regard as urgent reading. It is a tremendous achievement."-Arthur C. Danto, New Republic

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À propos de l?auteur

Hans Belting (1935-2023) was the Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. His books include The End of the History of Art?, Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image before the Era of Art, and The Invisible Masterpiece, all published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226042154
ISBN 13 
9780226042152
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
676
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780226042145: Likeness and Presence: A History of the Image Before the Era of Art

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226042146 ISBN 13 :  9780226042145
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1994
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