Toward an Anthropology of the Image - Hans Belting
Autor: luisa pessoa | Publicado: 2008-06-16T10:16:00-07:00

Segue 'os complementos' da apresentação de terça-feira:* O link da revista L'Homme, citada no texto: 'The 2003 issue of L'Homme, edited by Carlo Severi, assembles a number of contributors from the disciplines of ethnology, social history, and art history inder the heading 'Image and Anthropology'(p.44)http://lhomme.revues.org/sommaire293.html* Crânio de Jericó (p.46) - primeiro exemplo de Belting, tirado do Wikipedia:"Plastered skull Jericho, Israel Height: 20.3 cm; width: 14.6 cm Excavated by Dame Kathleen Kenyon, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem British Museum ANE 127414 Room 59, The Ancient Levant"* Bonecos de cal/gesso que representam o corpo em sua totalidade:Micah - o mostrado no texto de Belting:Também temos o Noah e HeifaAqui, o texto explicativo no site (http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/me/l/lime_plaster_statues.aspx):             Lime plaster statues                   Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, about 7200 BCFrom 'Ain Ghazal, Jordan       Micah, Heifa and Noah                These statues, modelled in lime plaster over armatures of reeds and twine, are part of an extraordinary cache found buried in a carefully prepared pit, discovered at 'Ain Ghazal on the outskirts of Amman in Jordan. They are perhaps the most remarkable examples of prehistoric art from the period known as Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. Dating to the end of the eighth millennium BC, they are among the earliest large-scale representations of the human form.The statues, of which there may be as many as 25, fall into two categories according to their size. All have naturalistically rendered heads and faces, but whereas the smaller figures have schematized bodies, the larger ones have realistically represented bodies with arms and legs, hands and feet, and, in some cases, breasts. Many of the statues are decorated with paint to indicate hair, items of clothing, and also to highlight the facial features.The eyes have been built up in a purer, whiter plaster than that used for the main statue. A black bituminous material has been used to create the iris-pupils, and the same material has been pressed into grooves surrounding the eyeballs, but here the effect is further enhanced by the addition of an unusual green mineral pigment, dioptase.At the time of their discovery, the statues were given names by the excavators and conservators. These three were called Micah (small figure), Noah (large figure with missing arm) and Heifa (large figure).             J.N. Tubb, Canaanites (London, The British Museum Press, 1998)     * Retratos de Bonecos de cera feitos por Hiroshi Sugimotosites: http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/sugimoto/# e http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/wax.htmlDescrição no site de Sugimoto:Portraits   In the sixteenth century, Flemish court painter to the British CrownHans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) gave us the imposingly regalportrait of Henry VIII now kept in London's Royal Portrait Gallery.Based on this Holbein portrait, the wax figure artisans of MadameTussaud's in their consummate skill recreated an absolutely faithfullikeness of the king. Which allowed me―based on my own studies intothe Renaissance lighting Holbein might have painted by―to re-do theRoyal Portrait, substituting photography for painting, the sole recordingmedium available at the time. If this photograph now appears lifelike toyou, you had better reconsider what it means to be alive here and now.  <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]-->  <!--[endif]-->Hiroshi Sugimoto* Site Cindy Shermanhttp://www.cindysherman.com/index.php* TV Buddha (1974) Closed Circuit video installation with bronze sculpture  <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]-->  <!--[endif]-->