Archaeology's visual culture: digging and desire

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"Archaeology's Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past, acknowledging the multiplicity of meanings that cohere around artifacts, archaeological sites and museum displays. Archaeology's Visual Culture investigates the nature of this projection, revealing an embedded subjectivity in the imagery of archaeology. Using a wide …

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Full title :Archaeology's visual culture : digging and desire / Roger Balm.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2016

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 286 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138941151, 1138941158
oclc:ocn926623328
LC Classification:CC72
Dewey Decimal:930.1

Insistent visuality -- Scopic privilege and appropriation -- Stratigraphy -- Imagination and the ruin -- Aerial archaeology and its haunting -- Remote sensing and rocket visions -- Wither the object?

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Antiquités -- Études de cas. -- Collect… Antiquities -- Case studies. -- Collect… Antiquities -- Collection and preservat… Archaeological museums and collections Archaeological museums and collections … Archaeologists -- Case studies. -- Psyc… Archaeology -- Case studies. -- Philoso… Archaeology -- Case studies. -- Psychol… Archaeology -- Philosophy Archéologie -- Études de cas. -- Aspect… Archéologie -- Études de cas. -- Musées… Archéologues -- Études de cas. -- Psych… Arkeologi -- psykologiska aspekter Case studies Communication visuelle -- Études de cas Études de cas Excavations (Archaeology) Excavations (Archaeology) -- Case studi… Fornlämningar Fouilles (Archéologie) -- Études de cas