The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representation in Archaeology

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ISBN: 9780415106757 | 0415106753
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Copyright: 1/24/1997

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With subjects ranging from prehistoric artworks to excavation drawings, scientific illustrations, and artists impressions of ancient sites and contemporary landscapes,The Cultural Life of Imagesexplores how pictures and representations of the past shape our perceptions and our expectations of that past. This volume is not concerned with the accuracy of pictures from the past or directly about the past itself, but is interested instead as to why certain subjects are selected, why they are depicted the way they are, and what effects such images have on our idea of the past. This collection constitutes a ground-breaking study in historiography which radically reassesses the ways in which history can be written.

List of illustrations

(3)

List of tables

xiii

(1)

List of contributors

xiv

(1)

General editor's preface

(2)

Acknowledgements

xvii

Introduction: the cultural life of images

(10)

Brain Leigh Molyneaux

Pictures and words

(4)

The situation of production

(1)

The inertia of pictures

(2)

Seeing and reading

(1)

References

(3)

1 Art, Landscape, and the past: an artist's view

(11)

Carolyn Trant

References

(1)

2 Drawing inferences: visual reconstructions in theory and practice

(27)

Simon James

Introduction

(1)

`But is it Art?' Aims, aesthetics, and mechanics

(1)

Participants and interactions

(1)

Academic attitudes

(1)

Rules and guidelines

(1)

Aims, processes, and limitations

(1)

Reconstruction as an archaeological research tool

(6)

Reconstructing the Roman saddle

(2)

Reconstructing complex timber buildings. Cowdery's Down

(4)

Reconstructing social relations

(1)

Reconstruction as a medium of communication with the public(s)

(5)

Iron Age nobles. A reconstruction for the general public

(4)

Producing a drawing

(1)

Boxgrove

(6)

Building on experience. Vices into virtues

(1)

Acknowledgements

(1)

References

(2)

3 Things, and things like them

(13)

Alan Costall

The place of pictures in perceptual theory

(12)

The window theory of pictures

(1)

The information theory of pictures

(3)

The evidence for resemblance theory

(2)

Doing things with pictures

(1)

Children's (mis)understandings of pictures

(2)

The social life of pictures

(1)

References

(3)

4 `To see is to have seen': craft traditions in British field archaeology

(11)

Richard Bradley

On learning to see

(2)

Craft traditions in field archaeology

(4)

Styles of illustration

(2)

Conclusion: 'To see is to have seen'

(1)

Note

(1)

References

(2)

5 Photography and archeology

(35)

Michael Shanks

Introduction

(1)

The photograph as record and witness

(2)

Photographs as notes

(2)

Genres of photography

(1)

Realism and naturalism

(2)

The rhetoric of the image

(1)

The rhetoric of discourse

(2)

Text and the photograph

(1)

Photowork and the working of illustrative discourse

(2)

10 The power of the picture: the image of the ancient Gaul

213

(17)

Timothy Champion

Introduction

213

(17)

Representation of the barbarian Gauls

214

(2)

Guizot's Histoire and its images

216

(7)

The projection of the image

223

(3)

The legacy

226

(3)

References

229

(1)

11 Focusing on the past: visual and textual images of Aboriginal Australia in museums

230

(19)

Lynette Russell

Introduction

230

(1)

Inventing the other

231

(1)

Museum texts and displays, past and present

233

(7)

An Aboriginal-designed museum exhibition

240

(3)

Corporate symbolism: Aborigines represent themselves

243

(2)

Conclusion

245

(1)

Acknowledgements

246

(1)

References

246

(3)

12 The painter and prehistoric people: a 'hypothesis on canvas

249

(14)

Wiktor Stoczkowski

Notes

262

(1)

References

262

(1)

Index

263

(1)

Further workings of a photograph

(1)

Temporality of the photograph

(1)

Actuality

(3)

Melancholy and ruin

(2)

New technologies

(1)

Hypermedia

(7)

Experience and the photograph

(1)

Varieties of experience: towards embodiment

100

(1)

Visualization as a research too and archaeologies of the ineffable

100

(1)

The potential of photography

101

(1)

A radical imaging/writing

102

(1)

Notes

102

(2)

References

104

(4)

6 Representation and reality in private tombs of the late eighteenth dynasty, Egypt: an approach to the study of the shape of meaning

108

(22)

Brain Leigh Molyneaux

Representation and reality

108

(6)

The Akhenaten problem

114

(2)

The social landscape of the representations

116

(1)

Visibility and compositional devices

117

(4)

Metric analysis

121

(1)

The analysis of height relations

122

(3)

Conclusion

125

(2)

References

127

(3)

7 Some Greek images of others

130

(29)

Brian A. Sparkes

Introduction

130

(2)

The dynamic text

132

(1)

Images of others

133

(4)

The others

137

(17)

The Skythians

137

(2)

The Thracians

139

(3)

The Persians

142

(2)

The Africans (Ethiopians and Egyptians)

144

(10)

Conclusion

154

(1)

References

155

(4)

8 The art and archaeology of Custer's last battle

159

(25)

Richard A. Fox, Jr

Introduction

159

(1)

Objectives

160

(1)

"Custer's last stand'

161

(2)

Plains Indian art

163

(8)

Indian drawings, archaeology, and combat behaviour

171

(8)

Conclusions

179

(2)

Acknowledgements

181

(1)

Notes

182

(1)

References

182

(2)

9 Revolutionary images: the iconic vocabulary for representing human antiquity

184

(29)

Stephanie Moser

Clive Gamble

Introduction

184

(1)

Archaeology and visual representation

185

(1)

The visual reconstruction

186

(4)

The icons of human antiquity

188

(2)

Three windows onto the past

190

(15)

The Romantic tradition

192

(3)

The archaeological tradition

194

(10)

The comic tradition

204

(1)

Locating the origins of archaeology's iconic vocabulary

205

(4)

Ancestors and cultural origins

206

(1)

Apes, savages, and evolution

207

(1)

Landscape

208

(1)

Authenticity and the demise of the Romantic vision of the past

209

(1)

Acknowledgements

210

(1)

Note

210

(1)

References

211

(2)

List of illustrations

(3)

List of tables

xiii

(1)

List of contributors

xiv

(1)

General editor's preface

(2)

Acknowledgements

xvii

Introduction: the cultural life of images

(10)

Brain Leigh Molyneaux

Pictures and words

(4)

The situation of production

(1)

The inertia of pictures

(2)

Seeing and reading

(1)

References

(3)

1 Art, Landscape, and the past: an artist's view

(11)

Carolyn Trant

References

(1)

2 Drawing inferences: visual reconstructions in theory and practice

(27)

Simon James

Introduction

(1)

`But is it Art?' Aims, aesthetics, and mechanics

(1)

Participants and interactions

(1)

Academic attitudes

(1)

Rules and guidelines

(1)

Aims, processes, and limitations

(1)

Reconstruction as an archaeological research tool

(6)

Reconstructing the Roman saddle

(2)

Reconstructing complex timber buildings. Cowdery's Down

(4)

Reconstructing social relations

(1)

Reconstruction as a medium of communication with the public(s)

(5)

Iron Age nobles. A reconstruction for the general public

(4)

Producing a drawing

(1)

Boxgrove

(6)

Building on experience. Vices into virtues

(1)

Acknowledgements

(1)

References

(2)

3 Things, and things like them

(13)

Alan Costall

The place of pictures in perceptual theory

(12)

The window theory of pictures

(1)

The information theory of pictures

(3)

The evidence for resemblance theory

(2)

Doing things with pictures

(1)

Children's (mis)understandings of pictures

(2)

The social life of pictures

(1)

References

(3)

4 `To see is to have seen': craft traditions in British field archaeology

(11)

Richard Bradley

On learning to see

(2)

Craft traditions in field archaeology

(4)

Styles of illustration

(2)

Conclusion: 'To see is to have seen'

(1)

Note

(1)

References

(2)

5 Photography and archeology

(35)

Michael Shanks

Introduction

(1)

The photograph as record and witness

(2)

Photographs as notes

(2)

Genres of photography

(1)

Realism and naturalism

(2)

The rhetoric of the image

(1)

The rhetoric of discourse

(2)

Text and the photograph

(1)

Photowork and the working of illustrative discourse

(2)

10 The power of the picture: the image of the ancient Gaul

213

(17)

Timothy Champion

Introduction

213

(17)

Representation of the barbarian Gauls

214

(2)

Guizot's Histoire and its images

216

(7)

The projection of the image

223

(3)

The legacy

226

(3)

References

229

(1)

11 Focusing on the past: visual and textual images of Aboriginal Australia in museums

230

(19)

Lynette Russell

Introduction

230

(1)

Inventing the other

231

(1)

Museum texts and displays, past and present

233

(7)

An Aboriginal-designed museum exhibition

240

(3)

Corporate symbolism: Aborigines represent themselves

243

(2)

Conclusion

245

(1)

Acknowledgements

246

(1)

References

246

(3)

12 The painter and prehistoric people: a 'hypothesis on canvas

249

(14)

Wiktor Stoczkowski

Notes

262

(1)

References

262

(1)

Index

263

(1)

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