Smiles / Moser Envisioning the Past

Archaeology an the Image
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3757-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Interventions in Art History

Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is agroundbreaking collection of original essays that brings togetherarchaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide newperspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning theantiquity of man.
* * Covers a wide variety of time periods and topics, from theRenaissance and the 18th century to the engravings, photography,and virtual realities of today
* * Questions what we can learn from considering the use of imagesin the past and present that might guide our responsible use ofthem in the future
* * Available within the prestigious New Interventions in ArtHistory series, published in connection with the Associationof Art Historians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smiles, Sam

Moser, Stephanie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sam Smiles is Professor of Art History at the University ofPlymouth. He is the author of The Image of Antiquity: AncientBritain 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 theUniversity of Southampton. She is the author of AncestralImages: The Iconography of Human Origins (1998) andExhibiting Egypt (2005).