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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (Series)Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997Description: xvii, 274 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415106753
  • 9780415106757
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930
LOC classification:
  • CC79.I44 C85 1997
Contents:
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- General editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the cultural life of images -- 1. Art, landscape, and the past: an artist's view -- 2. Drawing inferences: visual reconstructions in theory and practice -- 3. Things, and things like them -- 4. 'To see is to have seen': craft traditions in British field archaeology -- 5. Photography and archaeology -- 6. Representation and reality in private tombs of the late eighteenth dynasty, Egypt: an approach to the study of the shape of meaning -- 7. Some Greek images of others -- 8. The art and archaeology of Custer's last battle -- 9. Revolutionary images: the iconic vocabulary for representing human antiquity -- 10. The power of the picture: the image of the ancient Gaul -- 11. Focusing on the past: visual and textual images of Aboriginal Australia in museums -- 12. The painter and prehistoric people: a 'hypothesis on canvas' -- Index.
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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 -- 1. Art, landscape, and the past: an artist's view -- 2. Drawing inferences: visual reconstructions in theory and practice -- 3. Things, and things like them -- 4. 'To see is to have seen': craft traditions in British field archaeology -- 5. Photography and archaeology -- 6. Representation and reality in private tombs of the late eighteenth dynasty, Egypt: an approach to the study of the shape of meaning -- 7. Some Greek images of others -- 8. The art and archaeology of Custer's last battle -- 9. Revolutionary images: the iconic vocabulary for representing human antiquity -- 10. The power of the picture: the image of the ancient Gaul -- 11. Focusing on the past: visual and textual images of Aboriginal Australia in museums -- 12. The painter and prehistoric people: a 'hypothesis on canvas' -- Index.

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