Cultural Life of Images
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Amenhetep IV
ancient site depictions
archaeological
archaeological interpretation
Athenian Red Figure
Australian Aboriginal Culture
Bad Heart Bull
Big Horn Battle
Bird's Eye
Bird’s Eye
Burian's Pictures
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clive
Clive Gamble
Contemporary Aboriginal People
Custer Battle
Custer Fight
De Neuville
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Gaulish Warrior
Hen Domen
historiography of images
Homo Erectus
Homo Erectus Pekinensis
illustration
iron
knowledge
man
Martyn Jope
Napoleon III
owner
prehistoric art studies
Prehistoric Rock Art
Red Horse
scientific illustration critique
Standing Bear
tomb
Tomb Owner
Tuthmosis IV
visual analysis methods
visual perception in archaeology
White Bull
wild
Wild Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415106757
- Weight: 710g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
With subjects including prehistoric artworks, excavation illustrations, artists' impressions of ancient sites and peoples and contemporary landscapes, photographs and drawings, this study explores how pictures shape our perceptions and our expectations of the past.
This volume is not concerned with the accuracy of pictures from the past or directly about the past itself, but is interested instead in 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 that history can be written.
Brian Leigh Molyneaux is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the University of South Dakota.
