Title & Author:

Past presented : archaeological illustration and the ancient Americas / Joanne Pillsbury, editor.

Publication:

Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2012.

Description:

xix, 498 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia

Notes:
"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium "Past Presented: A Symposium on the History of Archaeological Illustration", held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on October 9-10, 2009."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-470) and index.
Perspectives : representing the pre-Columbian past / Joanne Pillsbury -- European antiquarianism and the discovery of the New World / Alain Schnapp -- The first steps on a long journey : archaeological illustration in eighteenth-century New Spain / Leonardo López Luján -- The uncanny tombs in Martínez Compañón's Trujillo del Perú / Lisa Trever -- Beyond Stephens and Catherwood : ancient Mesoamerica as public entertainment in the early nineteenth century / Khristaan D. Villela -- Antonio Raimondi, archaeology, and national discourse : representations and meanings of the past in nineteenth-century Peru / Luis Felipe Villacorta Ostolaza -- Nineteenth-century photographs of archaeological collections from Mexico / Adam T. Sellen -- Drawing glyphs together / Byron Ellsworth Hamann -- "Unavoidable imperfections" : historical contexts for representing ruined Maya buildings / Scott R. Hutson -- "Wings over the Andes" : aerial photography and the dematerialization of archaeology circa 1931 / Jason Weems -- Printed pictures of Maya sculpture / Bryan R. Just -- Telling it slant : imaginative reconstructions of classic Maya life / Stephen D. Houston -- Realizing the illustration potential of digital models and images : beyond visualization / John W. Rick -- Beyond the naked eye : multidimensionality of sculpture in archaeological illustration / Barbara W. Fash.

Summary:

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. Publisher's note.

ISBN:

9780884023807 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
088402380X (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Indians Historiography Pictorial works.
Indians Antiquities Pictorial works.
Archaeology America Pictorial works.
Archaeological illustration America.
Peuples autochtones Historiographie Ouvrages illustrés.
Peuples autochtones Antiquités Ouvrages illustrés.
Archéologie Amérique Ouvrages illustrés.
Illustration archéologique Amérique.
Archaeological illustration
Antiquities
Archaeology
Indians Antiquities
Indians Historiography
Archäologie
Geschichtsschreibung
Illustration
America Antiquities Pictorial works.
Amérique Antiquités Ouvrages illustrés.
America
Altamerika

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Pillsbury, Joanne.
Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282148
Call No.: BIB 219331
Status: Available