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Since the end of the 1980s, contemporary art from Africa has been an indispensable part of major exhibitions in Europe and America. Nevertheless, there is still little to be learned about artists from this continent today. Based on a stay of several months and intensive research, the author introduces 14 contemporary artists from Cote d "Ivoire and Benin. Their works are explained using excerpts from conversations and explanations of their concepts and considerations. In this way, the reader is encouraged to participate in depth to deal with these various forms of expression - from pictures to sculptures and masks made from waste products to installations - addressing the educational situation as well as the environment, the art world in which the artists live and work creatively.

Art --- Anthropology of art --- art worlds --- contemporary art of Africa --- global art --- globalization --- Gegenwartskünstler aus Cote d"Ivoire und Benin --- Afrika --- Frankreich --- Holz --- Malerei

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Since the end of the 1980s, contemporary art from Africa has been an indispensable part of major exhibitions in Europe and America. Nevertheless, there is still little to be learned about artists from this continent today. Based on a stay of several months and intensive research, the author introduces 14 contemporary artists from Cote d "Ivoire and Benin. Their works are explained using excerpts from conversations and explanations of their concepts and considerations. In this way, the reader is encouraged to participate in depth to deal with these various forms of expression - from pictures to sculptures and masks made from waste products to installations - addressing the educational situation as well as the environment, the art world in which the artists live and work creatively.

Art --- Anthropology of art --- art worlds --- contemporary art of Africa --- global art --- globalization --- Gegenwartskünstler aus Cote d"Ivoire und Benin --- Afrika --- Frankreich --- Holz --- Malerei

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This volume assembles more than 30 articles focusing on the visual, material, and environmental arts of the Ancient Near East. Specific case studies range temporally from the fourth millennium up to the Hellenistic period and geographically from Iran to the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions apply innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to archaeological evidence and critically examine the historiography of the discipline itself. Not intended to be comprehensive, the volume instead captures a cross-section of the field of Ancient Near Eastern art history as its stands in the second decade of the twenty-first century. The volume will be of value to scholars working in the Ancient Near East as well as others interested in newer art historical and anthropological approaches to visual culture.

Art, Middle Eastern. --- Art, Ancient --- Art, Ancient -- Middle East. --- Art, Modern. --- Art, Middle Eastern --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Visual Arts - General --- Middle Eastern art --- Ancient Near Eastern art. --- anthropology of art. --- archaeology. --- art history.

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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.