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The Cultural Life of Images Brian Leigh Molyneaux

The Cultural Life of Images By Brian Leigh Molyneaux

The Cultural Life of Images by Brian Leigh Molyneaux


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Using a wide range of subjects, this study explores how pictures and representations of the past shape our perceptions and our expectations of the past.

The Cultural Life of Images Summary

The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representation in Archaeology by Brian Leigh Molyneaux

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.

The Cultural Life of Images Reviews

'The Cultural Life of Images is a book I would recommend to all practising archaeological illustrators.' - Graphic Archaeology

'This volume is a must for anyone researching art and its role with the past.' - George Nash, 3rd Stone

About Brian Leigh Molyneaux

Brian Leigh Molyneaux is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the University of South Dakota.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Art, Landscape, And The Past; 2: Drawing Inferences; 3: Things, and Things Like Them; 4: ' To See is to Have Seen '; 5: Photography and Archaeology; 6: Representation and Reality in Private Tombs of the Late Eighteenth Dynasty, Egypt; 7: Some Greek Images Of Others; 8: The Art and Archaeology of Custer's Last Battle; 9: Revolutionary Images; 10: The Power Of The Picture; 11: Focusing on the Past; 12: The Painter and Prehistoric People

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NLS9780415513449
9780415513449
0415513448
The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representation in Archaeology by Brian Leigh Molyneaux
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2011-11-04
292
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