Envisioning the Past
Archaeology an the Image
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Beschreibung
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.
Autor*in
Sam Smiles
Themen in »Envisioning the Past«
Archaeology Archäologie Art & Applied Arts Art History & Criticism Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst Kunstgeschichte u. -kritik
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"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
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