The cultural life of images : visual representation in archaeology / edited by Brian Leigh Molyneaux.

Contributor(s):

Molyneaux, Brian

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (Series)Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2011, c1997,Description: xvii, 274 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:

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ISBN:

9780415513449

Subject(s):

Imaging systems in archaeology

DDC classification:

930.1028

Contents:

Introduction: the cultural life of images/ Brian Leigh Molyneaux -- 1. Art, landscape, and the past: an artist's view/ Carolyn Trant -- 2. Drawing inferences: visual reconstructions in theory and practice/ Simon James -- 3. Things, and things like them/ Alan Costall -- 4. 'To see is to have seen': craft traditions in British field archaeology/ Richard Bradley -- 5. Photography and archaeology/ Michael Shanks -- 6. Representation and reality in private tombs of the late eighteenth dynasty, Egypt: an approach to the study of the shape of meaning/ Brian Leigh Molyneaux -- 7. Some Greek images of others/ Brian A. Sparkes -- 8. The art and archaeology of Custer's last battle/ Richard A. Fox, Jr. -- 9. Revolutionary images: the iconic vocabulary for representing human antiquity -- 10. The power of the picture: the image of the ancient Gaul/ Timothy Champion -- 11. Focusing on the past: visual and textual images of Aboriginal Australia in museums/ Lynette Russell -- 12. The painter and prehistoric people: a 'hypothesis on canvas'/ Wiktor Stoczkowski.

Summary: "Pictures are often admired for their aesthetic merits but they are rarely treated as if they had as much to offer as the written word. They are often overlooked as objects of analysis themselves, and tend to be seen simply as adjuncts to the text. Images, however, ar not passive, and have a direct impact that engages attention in ways independent of any specific text. Advertising, entertainment and propaganda have realized the extent of this power to shape ideas, but the scientific community has hitherto neglected the ways in which visual material conditions the ways we think. With subjects including prehistoric artworks, excavation, illustrations, artists' impressions of ancient sites and peoples, and contemporary landscapes, photographs and drawings, this study explores how pictures shape our perceptions and our expectations of the past. This volume is not concerned with the accuracy of pictures from the past or directly about the past itself, but is interested instead in why certain subjects are selected, why the are depicted the way they are, and what effects such images have on our idea of the past. This collection constitutes a ground-breaking study in historiography which radically reassesses the ways that history can be written."--Publisher's description.

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Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	930.1028 CUL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010568		Vanderpool, Jeff

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Pictures are often admired for their aesthetic merits but they are rarely treated as if they had as much to offer as the written word. They are often overlooked as objects of analysis themselves, and tend to be seen simply as adjuncts to the text. Images, however, ar not passive, and have a direct impact that engages attention in ways independent of any specific text. Advertising, entertainment and propaganda have realized the extent of this power to shape ideas, but the scientific community has hitherto neglected the ways in which visual material conditions the ways we think.
With subjects including prehistoric artworks, excavation, illustrations, artists' impressions of ancient sites and peoples, and contemporary landscapes, photographs and drawings, this study explores how pictures shape our perceptions and our expectations of the past.
This volume is not concerned with the accuracy of pictures from the past or directly about the past itself, but is interested instead in why certain subjects are selected, why the are depicted the way they are, and what effects such images have on our idea of the past. This collection constitutes a ground-breaking study in historiography which radically reassesses the ways that history can be written."--Publisher's description.