Smiles Sam / MOSER S STEPHANIE

Broschiertes Buch

Envisioning the Past

Archaeology an the Image

Herausgeber: Smiles, Sam; Moser, Stephanie

Beschreibung

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.

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 164mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781405111508
• ISBN-10: 140511150X
• Artikelnr.: 21248360

Rezensionen

"I recommend this book to anyone interested in the relationshipbetween archaeology and 'the image', and particularly point to thecontributions by Glazier, Scott, Phillips and Arnold." CulturalStudies

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