The Cultural Life of Images

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 *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

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

Inhalt
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