Faces

Nowhere is the human presence as visible as in the face. For thousands of years, people have tried to decipher the face and capture it in images. Hans Belting's grand history of the face is the story of a quest that began with the masks of the Stone Age, drove the development of the portrait, and extends to photography, film, and the digital media of the present. Hans Belting's exciting exploration of European cultural history shows how images have continually pursued the living face in new attempts - and why they have never reached a destination.