| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 274 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) |
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Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) (Series)
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| Contents |
Art, landscape, and the past: an artist's view / Carolyn Trant -- Drawing inferences: visual reconstructions in theory and practice / Simon James -- Things, and things like them / Alan Costall -- 'To see is to have seen': craft traditions in British field archaeology / Richard Bradley -- Photography and archaeology / Michael Shanks -- 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 -- Some Greek images of others / Brian A. Sparkes -- The art and archaeology of Custer's last battle / Richard A. Fox, Jr. -- Revolutionary images: the iconic vocabulary for representing human antiquity / Stephanie Moser and Clive Gamble -- The power of the picture: the image of the ancient Gaul / Timothy Champion -- Focusing on the past: visual and textual images of Aboriginal Australia in museums / Lynette Russell -- 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, are not passive, and have a direct impact that engages attention in ways independent of any specific text. Advertising, entertainment and propaganda have realised the extent of this power to shape ideas, but the scientific community has hitherto neglected the ways in which visual material conditions the ways in which we think. Wi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Imaging systems in archaeology.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Imaging systems in archaeology
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Archeologie.
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Fotografie.
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Visuele informatie.
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Infographie en archéologie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Molyneaux, Brian
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| LC no. |
96022428 |
| ISBN |
9781134546237 |
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1134546238 |
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9781315888460 |
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1315888467 |
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