Envisioning The Past Archaeology And The Image Sam Smiles Stephanie Moser by Sam Smiles, Stephanie Moser 9780470774830, 9781405111515, 0470774835, 1405111518 instant download after payment.
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.
Content:
Chapter 1 Romancing the Human: The Ideology of Envisioned Human Origins (pages 13–28): Paul Privateer
Chapter 2 “We Grew Up and Moved On”: Visitors to British Museums Consider Their “Cradle of Mankind” (pages 29–50): Monique Scott
Chapter 3 The American Time Machine: Indians and the Visualization of Ancient Europe (pages 51–71): Stephanie Pratt
Chapter 4 “To Make the Dry Bones Live”: Amedeee Forestier's Glastonbury Lake Village (pages 72–91): James E. Phillips
Chapter 5 Unlearning the Images of Archaeology (pages 92–114): Dana Arnold
Chapter 6 Illustrating Ancient Rome, or the Ichnographia as Uchronia and Other Time Warps in Piranesi's Il Campo Marzio (pages 115–132): Susan M. Dixon
Chapter 7 Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: Two Episodes in the Artistic Approach to British Antiquity (pages 133–157): Sam Smiles
Chapter 8 A Different Way of Seeing? Toward a Visual Analysis of Archaeological Folklore (pages 158–179): Darren Glazier
Chapter 9 Photography and Archaeology: The Image as Object (pages 180–191): Frederick N. Bohrer
Chapter 10 Wearing Juninho's Shirt: Record and Negotiation in Excavation Photographs (pages 192–203): Jonathan Bateman
Chapter 11 Video Killed Engaging VR? Computer Visualizations on the TV Screen (pages 204–222): Graeme P. Earl
Chapter 12 The Real, the Virtually Real, and the Hyperreal: The Role of VR in Archaeology (pages 223–239): Mark Gillings
