Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; 1 Insistent visuality; A theoretical framework; The context of modernity; The chapters; Notes; References; 2 Scopic privilege and appropriation; Circulation of the archaeological story; Set in stone: Cesnola in Cyprus; Metrics and meaning: Squier in South America; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3 Stratigraphy; Diagrammatic picturing; Augustus Pitt Rivers and Cranborne; Mortimer Wheeler and the aesthetics of excavation; Harris matrix and the rope of time; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 Imagination and the ruin
Tatiana's chairEdgewalking; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5 Aerial archaeology and its haunting; The aerial domain; Osbert Crawford and ghosts of old England; Ghosts of old Yucatán; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 Remote sensing and rocket visions; Visual continuities; Encounters beyond visible light; Desert traces; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7 Wither the object?; The weightless past; Archaeological imagination; The wistfulness of the archaeological eye; Notes; References; Index
Summary
"Archaeology's Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past, acknowledging the multiplicity of meanings that cohere around artifacts, archaeological sites and museum displays. Archaeology's Visual Culture investigates the nature of this projection, revealing an embedded subjectivity in the imagery of archaeology. Using a wide range of case studies the book highlights the way archaeologists view objects and the consequences that ensue from ways of seeing"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 23, 2015)
