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"We got to talking"-so David Antin begins the introduction to Radical Coherency, embarking on the pursuit that has marked much of his breathless, brilliantly conversational work. For the past forty years, whether spoken under the guise of performance artist or poet, cultural explorer or literary critic, Antin's innovative observations have helped us to better understand everything from Pop to Postmodernism. Intimately wedded to the worlds of conceptual art and poetics, Radical Coherency collects Antin's influential critical essays and spontaneous, performed lectures (or "talk pieces") for the very first time, capturing one of the most distinctive perspectives in contemporary literature. The essays presented here range from the first serious assessment of Andy Warhol published in a major art journal, as well as Antin's provocative take on Clement Greenberg's theory of Modernism, to frontline interventions in present debates on poetics and fugitive pieces from the '60s and '70s that still sparkle today-and represent a gold mine for art historians of the period. From John Cage to Allan Kaprow, Mark Rothko to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Antin takes the reader on an idiosyncratic, personal journey through twentieth-century culture with his trademark antiformalist panache-one thatwill be welcomed by any fan of this consummate trailblazer.

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A compelling theory that places the origin of human picture making in the bodyIn 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 from the images we encounter through handmade or technical pictures. Refusing to reduce images to their material embodiment yet acknowledging the importance of the historical media in which images are manifested, An Anthropology of Images presents a challenging and provocative new account of what pictures are and how they function.The book demonstrates these ideas with a series of compelling case studies, ranging from Dante's picture theory to post-photography. One chapter explores the tension between image and medium in two "media of the body," the coat of arms and the portrait painting. Another, central chapter looks at the relationship between image and death, tracing picture production, including the first use of the mask, to early funerary rituals in which pictures served to represent the missing bodies of the dead. Pictures were tools to re-embody the deceased, to make them present again, a fact that offers a surprising clue to the riddle of presence and absence in most pictures and that reveals a genealogy of pictures obscured by Platonic picture theory.

Ethnology in art. --- Visual anthropology. --- Visual sociology. --- Alex Katz. --- Allegory. --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Anthropology of art. --- Anthropology of media. --- Antithesis. --- Aphorism. --- Archaeology. --- Art criticism. --- Art history. --- Art. --- Body image. --- Camera Work. --- Camera. --- Case study. --- Close-up. --- Coat of arms. --- Conceptual art. --- Consciousness. --- Countermovement. --- Creation myth. --- Creative work. --- Cultural anthropology. --- Cultural geography. --- Cultural heritage. --- Cultural history. --- Cultural memory. --- Dichotomy. --- Emblem. --- Emerging technologies. --- Escutcheon (heraldry). --- Explanation. --- Film theory. --- Fine art. --- Funerary art. --- Genre. --- Georges Bataille. --- Gudea. --- Historical anthropology. --- Historicity. --- Historiography. --- Human figure (aesthetics). --- Humanism. --- Humanities. --- Iconicity. --- Iconoclasm. --- Iconography. --- Iconology. --- Illustration. --- Imagery. --- Inference. --- Intentionality. --- Invention. --- Mark So. --- Masaccio. --- Medium theory. --- Mental image. --- Metaphor. --- Metonymy. --- Modernity. --- Necromancy. --- Neuromancer. --- On Photography. --- Philosophical anthropology. --- Philosophy. --- Photogram. --- Photograph. --- Photography. --- Photojournalism. --- Physiognomy. --- Pictorialism. --- Pigment. --- Primitive culture. --- Primitivism. --- Propaganda. --- Provenance. --- Religious image. --- Reproducibility. --- Secularization. --- Semiotics. --- Sightline. --- Simulacrum. --- Social anthropology. --- Special effect. --- Special rights. --- Structural anthropology. --- Subtitle (captioning). --- Symptom. --- Technology. --- Terminology. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Uniqueness. --- Visual artifact. --- Visual arts. --- Visual culture. --- Visual rhetoric. --- Work of art. --- Writing.