Hans Belting

Hans Belting (* July 7, 1935 in Andernach ) is a German art historian and media theoretician with a focus in the field of image science, modernity and media art as well as in the Italian art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Life

Belting studied art history in Mainz and Rome and received his doctorate at the University of Mainz. Subsequently, he was a Fellow of Harvard University in Dumbarton Oaks Institute, Washington.

He habilitated at the University of Hamburg and taught from 1969 as full professor at the University of Heidelberg from 1980 to 1992 as full professor at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. From 1992 until his retirement in 2002 he was a professor at the Institute of Art History and Media Theory at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe. He was Director of the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK ) in Vienna from October 2004 until the end of September 2007.

Belting is a member of several scientific academies in Germany ( Heidelberg Academy of Sciences) and the USA, Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin (1995 ), honorary member of the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (since 2006) and Member of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and the Arts ( 1998) and member of the board of trustees of the Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MUMOK ). Since 2013 he has been a full member of the North Rhine- Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Work

As a first important and pioneering work Beltings applies the 1990 published book image and cult, the worship of images dedicated to the medieval from a socio-historical perspective. Also in the real image (2005) are sacred images (icons ) in the center.

For the development of image science most significant was especially the screen Anthropology ( 2001), examines the cultural and historical origins of image-making in the Belting, including, inter alia, the relationship between image and death devotes special attention, but also the current development of the media society and the current " crisis of representation " reflected.

Publications

Monographs

  • 2013: Faces: A History of the face, Munich: CH Beck, Munich.
  • 2010: Mirror of the World: The invention of painting in the Netherlands, Munich: CH Beck, Munich.
  • 2009: Looking through Duchamp door. Art and perspective in Duchamp. Sugimoto. Jeff Wall. Cologne: Walther König.
  • 2008: Florence and Baghdad. A west-east history of the gaze, Munich: CH Beck, Munich.
  • 2005: Scenarios of modernity: art and its open borders, Hamburg: Philo & Philo Fine Arts.
  • 2005: The real picture. Image issues as matters of faith, Munich: CH Beck.
  • 2004: Thomas Struth: museum photographs, London: Thames & Hudson.
  • 2002: Hieronymus Bosch. The Garden of Earthly Delights, Munich: Prestel.
  • 2001: Picture anthropology. Designs for a picture Science, Munich: Fink.
  • 1999: Identity in doubt. Views of German Art, Cologne: DuMont
  • 1998: The invisible masterpiece. The modern myths of Art, Munich: C. H. Beck.
  • 1995: The End of the History of Art - A review after ten years, Munich: CH Beck.
  • 1992: The Germans and their art. A troubled legacy, Munich: C.H.Beck.
  • 1990: Image and Cult. A history of the image before the era of Art, Munich: CH Beck.
  • 1984: Max Beckmann: the tradition as a problem in modern art, Munich: Dt. Art Verl.
  • 1983: The End of History of Art, Munich: Dt. Kunstverlag.
  • 1981: The image and its public in the Middle Ages: Form and Function earlier illustrations of the Passion, Berlin: Man.
  • 1979: The Bible of Nicetas: a work of courtly Arts in Byzantium and its ancient model, Wiesbaden: Reichert.
  • 1970: The illuminated book in the late Byzantine society, Heidelberg: C. Winter.
  • 1962: The Basilica of Ss. Martyrs in Cimitile and their early medieval frescoes, Wiesbaden: Steiner.

As editor

  • 2008: History of Art: An Introduction, 7th, revised. and ext. Divide; Berlin: Reimer.
  • 2007: Pictures questions. Image Science on the Move, Munich: Fink.
  • 2002: Quel corps? A question of representation, Munich: Fink. (together with Martin Schulz and Dietmar Kamper )
  • 2000: The second view. Visual History and Reflection, Munich: Fink.
  • 1998: The legacy of the images. Art and modern media in the cultures of the world, Munich: CH Beck. (along with Lydia Haustein )

Papers (selection)

  • 2005: "At the iconology of the gaze ." In: Christoph Wulf / Jörg Zirfas (ed.): iconology of the performative, Munich: Fink 2005, p.50 - 58th
  • 2005: "Down with the pictures. All power to the sign. From the history of semiotics. " In: Stefan Majetschak (Ed. ): Image characters. Perspectives of a science of image. Munich 2005 ( 2005b ), pp. 31-48.
  • 2008: " The violence of the images and the real ." In: Helga Finter (ed.): The Real and the (new) images. Thinking or terror of the images. Frankfurt q.s. among others: Peter Lang, pp. 69-77.
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