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Envisioning the Past: Archaeology an the Image

Sam Smiles (Editor), Stephanie Moser (Editor) 

ISBN: 978-1-405-11151-5

December 2004

Wiley-Blackwell

264 pages

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Envisioning the Past: Archaeology an the Image

Sam Smiles,Stephanie Moser

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978-1-405-11150-8
December 2004
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December 2004
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Description

Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and the Image is a groundbreaking collection of original essays that brings together archaeologists, art historians and anthropologists to provide new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man.

  • Covers a wide variety of time periods and topics, from the Renaissance and the 18th century to the engravings, photography, and virtual realities of today
  • Questions what we can learn from considering the use of images in the past and present that might guide our responsible use of them in the future
  • Available within the prestigious New Interventions in Art History series, published in connection with the Association of Art Historians.
About the Author
Sam Smiles is Professor of Art History at the University of Plymouth. He is the author of The Image of Antiquity: Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination (1994) and Eye Witness: Artists and Visual Documentation in Britain, 1770–1830 (2000).


Stephanie Moser is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She is the author of Ancestral Images: The Iconography of Human Origins (1998) and Exhibiting Egypt (2005).

Features

  • Provides new perspectives on the construction of knowledge concerning the antiquity of man



  • Covers a wide variety of time periods and topics, from the Renaissance and the 18th century to the engravings, photography, and virtual realities of today



  • Features original studies by an expert group of archaeologists, art historians, and anthropologists



  • Questions what we can learn from considering the use of images in the past and present that might guide our responsible use of them in the future



  • Available within the prestigious New Interventions in Art History series, published in connection with the Association of Art Historians.
Series
New Interventions in Art History
To Purchase this product, please visit
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