Envisioning the Past (eBook, PDF)

Archaeology an the Image
Redaktion: Smiles, Sam; Moser, Stephanie

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Produktbeschreibung

Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that brings together archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. * Covers a wide variety of time periods and topics, from the Renaissance and the 18th century to the engravings, photography, and virtual realities of today * Questions what we can learn from considering the use of images in the past and present that might guide our responsible use of them in the future * Available within the prestigious New Interventions in Art History series, published in connection with the Association of Art Historians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405137577
• Artikelnr.: 38281344

Autorenporträt

Sam Smiles is Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth. He is the author of The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination (1994) and Eye Witness: Artists and Visual Documentation in Britain, 1770-1830 (2000). Stephanie Moser is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She is the author of Ancestral Images: The Iconography of Human Origins (1998) and Exhibiting Egypt (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editor's Preface.

List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: The Image in Question: Stephanie Moser (Universityof Southampton) and Sam Smiles (University of Plymouth).

1 Romancing the Human: The Ideology of Envisioned Human Origins:Paul Privateer (Arizona State University).

2 "We Grew Up and Moved On": Visitors to BritishMuseums Consider Their "Cradle of Mankind": MoniqueScott (Yale University).

3 The American Time Machine: Indians and the Visualization ofAncient Europe: Stephanie Pratt (University of Plymouth).

4 "To Make the Dry Bones Live": AmédéeForestier's Glastonbury Lake Village: James E. Phillips(University of Southampton).

5 Unlearning the Images of Archaeology: Dana Arnold (Universityof Southampton).

6 Illustrating Ancient Rome, or the Ichnographia asUchronia and other time warps in Piranesi's Il CampoMarzio: Susan M. Dixon (University of Tulsa).

7 Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: two episodes in theartistic approach to British antiquity: Sam Smiles (University ofPlymouth).

8 A Different Way of Seeing? Toward a Visual Analysis ofArchaeological Folklore: Darren Glazier (University ofSouthampton).

9 Photography and Archaeology: The Image as Object: Fred Bohrer(Hood College).

10 Wearing Juninho's Shirt: Record and Negotiation inExcavation Photographs: Jonathan Bateman (University ofSheffield).

11 Video Killed Interpretative VR: Computer Visualisations onthe TV Screen: Graeme P. Earl (University of Southampton).

12 The Real, the Virtually Real and the Hyperreal: The Role ofVR in Archaeology: Mark Gillings (University of Leicester).

Index

Rezensionen

"I recommend this book to anyone interested in the relationshipbetween archaeology and 'the image', and particularly point to thecontributions by Glazier, Scott, Phillips and Arnold." CulturalStudies

"Envisioning the Past dissects a range of visualreconstructions of antiquity to expose conventions so widelyaccepted that their distorting effect has become all but invisible.The reader undergoes a process of re-sensitization that iseye-opening in the most literal sense." Arthur MacGregor,Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford