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Images in the Making : Art, Process, Archaeology

Back Danielsson, Ing-Marie LU orcid and Jones, Andrew Meirion (2020) In Social Archaeology and Material Worlds
Abstract
This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches. Reassessing the representational paradigm of archaeological image analysis, it argues for the importance of ontology, redefining images as material processes or events that draw together differing aspects of the world. The book is divided into three sections: 'Emergent images', which focuses on practices of making; 'Images as process', which examines the making and role of images in prehistoric societies; and 'Unfolding images', which focuses on how images change as they are made and circulated. Featuring contributions from archaeologists, Egyptologists, anthropologists and artists, it highlights the multiple role of images in prehistoric and... (More)
This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches. Reassessing the representational paradigm of archaeological image analysis, it argues for the importance of ontology, redefining images as material processes or events that draw together differing aspects of the world. The book is divided into three sections: 'Emergent images', which focuses on practices of making; 'Images as process', which examines the making and role of images in prehistoric societies; and 'Unfolding images', which focuses on how images change as they are made and circulated. Featuring contributions from archaeologists, Egyptologists, anthropologists and artists, it highlights the multiple role of images in prehistoric and historic societies, while demonstrating that scholars need to recognise their dynamic and changeable character. (Less)
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LU orcid and Jones, Andrew Meirion
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Social Archaeology and Material Worlds
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248 pages
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Manchester University Press
ISBN
9781526142849
978-1-5261-4285-6
language
English
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yes
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http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv15tt7jt
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