Hans Belting

In Likeness and Presence (1990), Belting argued for the necessity of understanding the ways images give meaning to their contexts, rather than gaining meaning from their contexts, to understand images as actors with their own agency.[8] Belting argued that art history as a disciplinary formation was outmoded and potentially obsolete,^[9] and that a Bildwissenschaft capable of apprehending all kinds of images, the exact scope and methods of which remain uncertain, should be sought.^[10] Pioneering the development of a global perspective on art studies and museum practice was the research project GAM – Global Art and the Museum, which Belting initiated in 2006 with Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddensieg at the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The project, which ran until 2016, took a look at new museum practices and the worldwide development of art biennials that have emerged beyond "Euramerica" (John Clark) since the end of the 1980s.^[11] The project included the exhibition and publication The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989 (2011–2012) at ZKM | Center or Art and Media Karlsruhe.^[12]

Fellowships and honours

Belting was a member of scientific academies in Germany and the U.S., including the

• Belting, Hans (2017). Face and Mask: A Double History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  ISBN 978-0691162355
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• —— (2013). Faces eine Geschichte des Gesichts (in German). München.
  OCLC 812376930.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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• —— (2011). Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance art and Arab science. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
  OCLC 701493612
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• ——; Dunlap, Thomas (2011). An Anthropology of Images: Picture, Medium, Body. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  OCLC 691205559
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• —— (2009). Looking through Duchamp's door: art and perspective in the work of Duchamp, Sugimoto, Jeff Wall. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.
  OCLC 499093764
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• ——; Buddensieg, Andrea; Araújo, Emanoel; Global Art and the Museum; Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften; Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (2009). The global art world: audiences, markets, and museums. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.
  OCLC 427296651
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• ——; Birken, Jacob; Buddensieg, Andrea; Weibel, Peter; Binter, Julia T. S. (2011). Global studies: mapping contemporary art and culture. Ostfildern, Germany.
  OCLC 767534541.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  )
• ——; Bosch, Hieronymus (2012). Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of earthly delights. Munich: Prestel.
  OCLC 829228470
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• —— (2003). Art history after modernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  OCLC 48265530
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• —— (2001). The invisible masterpiece. Translated by Atkins, Helen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  OCLC 46401602
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• —— (1998). The Germans and their art: a troublesome relationship. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  OCLC 38468736
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• ——; Jephcott, E. F. N. (1994). Likeness and presence: a history of the image before the era of art. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  OCLC 27769840
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• —— (1990). The image and its public in the Middle Ages: form and function of early paintings of the Passion. New Rochelle, N.Y.: A.D. Caratzas.
  OCLC 19623960
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• —— (1989). Max Beckmann: tradition as a problem in modern art. New York: Timken Publishers.
  OCLC 20261141
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• ——; Wood, Christopher S. (1987). The end of the history of art?. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  OCLC 14359049
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• "Why the Museum? New Markets, Colonial Memories, and Local Politics", Keynote Lecture at the ZKM conference, 19 October 2007
• Dictionary of Art Historians: Belting, Hans
• Chicago School of Media
• Northwestern University – Faculty
• Complete list of works