Hans Belting
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Hans Belting has taught as Professor for Art History at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich, where he held the most prominent chair in the field. In 1992, he became co-founder of the School for New Media (Hochschule für Gestaltung) in Karlsruhe, where he built up the discipline of Art Theory and Media Studies. In 2003, he held the European Chair at the College de France in Paris, where he presented a series of public lectures on the history of looking. As Visiting Professor, he taught at Harvard, Columbia University, Chicago/Northwestern, Washington and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. For a period of three years until 2007, he then went on to assume directorship of the International Research Center for Cultural Science (IFK) in Vienna. He is member of a number of international societies including the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Medieval Academy of America, Academia Europea and the Ateneo, in Venice. He received an honorary degree from London University.
His books have been translated into nine European languages and into Japanese. Among his books in English translation are: The End of the History of Art? (Chicago, 1987); Max Beckmann. Modern Painting and Tradition (New York, 1989); The Image and its Public in the Middle Ages (New York, 1990); Likeness and Presence. A History of the Image Before the Era of Art (Chicago, 1994); The Germans and their Art. A Difficult Heritage (New Haven, 2000); The Invisible Masterpiece (London, 2001); Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights (New York, 2003); Art History after Modernism (London, 2003); Thomas Struth: Museum Photographs (Munich, 2006); Florenz und Bagdad. Eine westöstliche Geschichte des Blicks (German original, Munich, 2008, forthcoming as: Double Perspective: Arab Science and Renaissance Art, working title, Cambridge/MA); Duchamp’s Perspective: Duchamp. Sugimoto. Jeff Wall (Cologne, 2009) Bodies and Pictures. Toward an Anthropology of Images (Princeton, forthcoming).
