Hans Belting

Szenarien der Moderne
Kunst und ihre offenen Grenzen
VOLUME 164

“From the Invention of the Painting to the End of Art History”—Peter Weibel

The essays collected in this volume introduce us to Hans Belting as a critical observer and attentive interpreter of the contemporary, which he reads in the mirror of art as a world in transformation. Contributions on artists including Sigmar Polke, Gary Hill, Nam June Paik, and Hiroshi Sugimoto alternate with probing analyses of fundamental concerns; the inquiries into the future of museums, in particular, have initiated a lively debate. The critique of “Idolatry Today” or the essay on contemporary body controversies touch on core questions of our culture. In his “exegeses of modernity,” the editor Peter Weibel writes, Belting also opens up “new spaces for an art after modernism and beyond Europe.”

Selected and with an introduction by the artist, curator, and theorist Peter Weibel (1944–2023).

Hans Belting (b. Andernach, 1935; d. Berlin, 2023) was a German art historian and media theorist whose scholarship spanned visual studies, modernist and media art, and medieval and Renaissance Italian art.