Past presented : archaeological illustration and the ancient Americas / Joanne Pillsbury, editor
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- xix, 498 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Pillsbury, Joanne
- Series
- Contents
- 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.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780884023807 (hardcover : alk. paper)
088402380X (hardcover : alk. paper) - Note
- 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., Oct. 9-10, 2009.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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