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9781405137577

Envisioning the Past: Archaeology an the Image

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    9781405137577

  • ISBN10:

    1405137576

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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 todayQuestions 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 futureAvailable within the prestigious New Interventions in Art History series, published in connection with the Association of Art Historians.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: The Image in Question
Romancing the Human: The Ideology of Envisioned Human Origins
öWe Grew Up and Moved Onö: Visitors to British Museums Consider Their ôCradle of Mankindö
The American Time Machine: Indians and the Visualization of Ancient Europe
öTo Make the Dry Bones Liveö: Amédée ForestierÆs Glastonbury Lake Village
Unlearning the Images of Archaeology
Illustrating Ancient Rome, or the Ichnographia as Uchronia and other time warps in PiranesiÆs Il Campo Marzio
Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: two episodes in the artistic approach to British antiquity
A Different Way of Seeing? Toward a Visual Analysis of Archaeological Folklore
Photography and Archaeology: The Image as Object
Wearing JuninhoÆs Shirt: Record and Negotiation in Excavation Photographs
Video Killed Interpretative VR: Computer Visualisations on the TV Screen
The Real, the Virtually Real and the Hyperreal: The Role of VR in Archaeology
Index
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