UID:
almafu_9959328255102883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 246 pages) :
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9780470774830
,
0470774835
,
1405137576
,
9781405137577
,
1280198265
,
9781280198267
,
9781405111515
,
1405111518
,
9781405111508
,
140511150X
,
6610198268
,
9786610198269
Series Statement:
New interventions in art history
Content:
Envisioning the Past brings together archaeologists, art historians, and anthropologists to offer new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man. The volume demonstrates the extent to which the visual presentation of archaeological research creates a particular discourse, powerful enough to shape our understanding of archaeological knowledge. No category of images is immune from this process, from site drawings to museum displays and from manuscript illustrations to digital media. Yet, given the frequent use of images as illustrative material in professional archaeological publications, museums, websites, and TV programs, there are important lessons to be learned. If a genuinely unmediated image is impossible, how should images be used? What can we learn from considering the use of images in the past and present that might guide our responsible use of them in the future? Moving beyond unchallenged presumptions about the passivity of the visual record, Envisioning the Past re-evaluates the importance of the image as a key contributor to the reconstruction of the past.
Note:
Romancing the human : the ideology of envisioned human origins / Paul Privateer -- "We grew up and moved on" : visitors to British museums consider their "cradle of mankind" / Monique Scott -- The American time machine : Indians and the visualization of ancient Europe / Stephanie Pratt -- "To make the dry bones live" : Amédée Forestier's Glastonbury lake village / James E. Phillips -- Unlearning the images of archaeology / Dana Arnold -- Illustrating ancient Rome, or The ichnographia as uchronia and other time warps in Piranesi's Il Campo Marzio / Susan M. Dixon -- Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire : two episodes in the artistic approach to British antiquity / Sam Smiles -- A different way of seeing : towards a visual analysis of archaeological folklore / Darren Glazier -- Photography and archaeology : the image as object / Frederick N. Bohrer -- Wearing Juninho's shirt : record and negotiation in excavation photographs / Jonathan Bateman -- Video killed engaging VR? : computer visualizations on the tv screen / Graeme P. Earl -- The real, the virtually real, and the hyperreal : the role of VR in archaeology / Mark Gillings.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Envisioning the past. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2005 ISBN 1405111518
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405111515
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470774830
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470774830
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470774830
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470774830
