Envisioning the Past (eBook)

Archaeology an the Image

Sam Smiles, Stephanie Moser (Herausgeber)

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2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4051-3757-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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).

Inhalt

Series Editor's Preface.

List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: The Image in Question: Stephanie Moser (University
of 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 British
Museums Consider Their "Cradle of Mankind": Monique
Scott (Yale University).

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

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

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

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

7 Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: two episodes in the
artistic approach to British antiquity: Sam Smiles (University of
Plymouth).

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

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

10 Wearing Juninho's Shirt: Record and Negotiation in
Excavation Photographs: Jonathan Bateman (University of
Sheffield).

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

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

Index

Rezensionen

"I recommend this book to anyone interested in the relationship
between archaeology and 'the image', and particularly point to the
contributions by Glazier, Scott, Phillips and Arnold." Cultural
Studies

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Reihe/Serie: New Interventions in Art History
• Reihe/Serie: New Interventions in Art History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Schlagworte: Anthropologists • Antiquity • Archäologie • archaeological • Archaeological research • archaeologists • archaeology • Archäologie • Art & Applied Arts • Art History & Criticism • Brings • category • Construction • discourse • extent • images • Knowledge • Kunstgeschichte u. -kritik • Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst • MAN • New • particular • PAST • Perspectives • Powerful • presentation • Process • Visual • Volume
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-3757-6 / 1405137576
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-3757-7 / 9781405137577