Ancestral Images The Iconography of Human Origins
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9780801435492
ISBN:0801435498
Publisher: Cornell University Press Summary: "In Moser's account, the processes of imaginative visualization too often marginalized in the histories of archaeology and anthropology assume a new eloquence. She provides a telling demonstration of how images generally outside the category of "Art" may not only play a crucial role in the history of a particular field of inquiry but also insinuate themselves into our mental library. The systematic study of such imag [read more]- 30-Day No-Hassle Returns
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9780801435492
ISBN:
0801435498
Publisher: Cornell University Press
"In Moser's account, the processes of imaginative visualization too often marginalized in the histories of archaeology and anthropology assume a new eloquence. She provides a telling demonstration of how images generally outside the category of "Art" may not only play a crucial role in the history of a particular field of inquiry but also insinuate themselves into our mental library. The systematic study of such imagery is itself in its infancy; the key texts in this field are Martin J. S. Rudwick's SCENES FROM DEEP TIME (1992), Francis Haskell's HISTORY AND ITS IMAGES (1993) and now ANCESTRAL IMAGES. Such studies, which enthusiastically embrace depictions that modern science tends at best to patronize, have a conspicuous part to play in the history of the visual."
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