Envisioning the past : archaeology and the image /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2005.
Description:xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:New interventions in art history
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5570773
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Other authors / contributors:Smiles, Sam.
Moser, Stephanie.
ISBN:1405111518 (hardback : alk. paper)
140511150X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Series Editor's
  • Preface
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction
  • The Image in Question
  • 1. Romancing the Human: The Ideology of Envisioned Human Origins
  • 2. "We Grew Up and Moved On": Visitors to British Museums Consider Their "Cradle of Mankind"
  • 3. The American Time Machine: Indians and the Visualization of Ancient Europe
  • 4. "To Make the Dry Bones Live": Am?d?e Forestier's Glastonbury Lake Village
  • 5. Unlearning the Images of Archaeology
  • 6. Illustrating Ancient Rome, or the Ichnographia as Uchronia and other time warps in Piranesi's Il Campo Marzio
  • 7. Thomas Guest and Paul Nash in Wiltshire: two episodes in the artistic approach to British antiquity
  • 8. A Different Way of Seeing? Toward a Visual Analysis of Archaeological Folklore
  • 9. Photography and Archaeology: The Image as Object
  • 10. Wearing Juninho's Shirt: Record and Negotiation in Excavation Photographs
  • 11. Video Killed Interpretative VR: Computer Visualisations on the TV Screen
  • 12. The Real, the Virtually Real and the Hyperreal: The Role of VR in Archaeology
  • Index