The cultural life of images : visual representation in archaeology /
The cultural life of images : visual representation in archaeology /
edited by Brian Leigh Molyneaux.
- xvii, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) .
- Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (Series). .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- General editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the cultural life of images -- Art, landscape, and the past: an artist's view -- Drawing inferences: visual reconstructions in theory and practice -- Things, and things like them -- 'To see is to have seen': craft traditions in British field archaeology -- Photography and archaeology -- Representation and reality in private tombs of the late eighteenth dynasty, Egypt: an approach to the study of the shape of meaning -- Some Greek images of others -- The art and archaeology of Custer's last battle -- Revolutionary images: the iconic vocabulary for representing human antiquity -- The power of the picture: the image of the ancient Gaul -- Focusing on the past: visual and textual images of Aboriginal Australia in museums -- The painter and prehistoric people: a 'hypothesis on canvas' -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
0415106753 9780415106757
96022428
Imaging systems in archaeology
CC79.I44 / C85 1997
930
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- General editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the cultural life of images -- Art, landscape, and the past: an artist's view -- Drawing inferences: visual reconstructions in theory and practice -- Things, and things like them -- 'To see is to have seen': craft traditions in British field archaeology -- Photography and archaeology -- Representation and reality in private tombs of the late eighteenth dynasty, Egypt: an approach to the study of the shape of meaning -- Some Greek images of others -- The art and archaeology of Custer's last battle -- Revolutionary images: the iconic vocabulary for representing human antiquity -- The power of the picture: the image of the ancient Gaul -- Focusing on the past: visual and textual images of Aboriginal Australia in museums -- The painter and prehistoric people: a 'hypothesis on canvas' -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
0415106753 9780415106757
96022428
Imaging systems in archaeology
CC79.I44 / C85 1997
930