Past Presented - Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-88402-380-7
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 520 Seiten, Format (B × H): 222 mm x 285 mm, Gewicht: 2398 g

Reihe: Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia

Illustrations remain one of the fundamental tools of archaeology, a means by which we share information and build ideas. Often treated as if they were neutral representations, archaeological illustrations are the convergence of science and the imagination. This volume, a collection of fourteen essays addressing the visual presentation of the Pre-Columbian past from the fifteenth century to the present day, explores and contextualizes the visual culture of archaeological illustration, addressing the intellectual history of the field and the relationship of archaeological illustration to other scientific disciplines and the fine arts. One of the principal questions raised by this volume is how do archaeological illustrations, which organize complex sets of information, shape the construction of knowledge? These visual and conceptual constructions warrant closer scrutiny: they matter, they shape our thinking. Archaeological illustrations are a mediation of vision and ideas, and the chapters in this volume consider how visual languages are created and how they become institutionalized. Past Presented: Archaeological Illustration and the Ancient Americas is about the ways in which representations illuminate the concerns and possibilities of a specific time and place and how these representations, in turn, shaped the field of archaeology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pillsbury, Joanne

Weitere Mitwirkende

Fash, Barbara W.

Houston, Stephen D.

Hutson, Scott R.

Just, Bryan R.

López Luján, Leonardo

Rick, John W.

Schnapp, Alain

Sellen, Adam T.

Villacorta Ostolaza, Luis Felipe

Villela, Khristaan D.

Weems, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Villacorta Ostolaza, Luis Felipe
Luis Felipe Villacorta Ostolaza received his <i>licenciado</i> in archaeology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and is a Master of Arts candidate in history at the University of Guelph.

López Luján, Leonardo
Leonardo López Luján is the Director of the Proyecto Templo Mayor in Mexico City, and senior researcher at Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City.

Rick, John W.
John W. Rick is Associate Professor and former Chair of Anthropological Sciences at Stanford University.

Just, Bryan R.
Bryan R. Just is Peter Jay Sharp, Class of 1952, Curator and Lecturer in the Art of the Ancient Americas at the Princeton University Art Museum.

Sellen, Adam T.
Adam T. Sellen is Professor of Mesoamerican Studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mérida, Yucatán.

Pillsbury, Joanne
Joanne Pillsbury is Andrall E. Pearson Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Villela, Khristaan D.
Khristaan D. Villela is Research Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico.

Houston, Stephen D.
Stephen D. Houston is Dupee Family Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology at Brown University.

Hutson, Scott R.
Scott R. Hutson is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky.

Fash, Barbara W.
Barbara W. Fash is Director and Series Editor of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.

Weems, Jason
Jason Weems is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Riverside.

Schnapp, Alain
Alain Schnapp is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.