Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Pictorial reconstructions of ancient human ancestors have twin purposes: to make sense of shared ancestry and to bring prehistory to life. Stephanie Moser analyzes the close relationship between representations of the past and theories about human evolution, showing how this relationship existed even before a scientific understanding of human origins developed. How did mythological, religious, and historically inspired visions of the past, in existence for centuries, shape this understanding? Moser treats images as primary documents, and her book is lavishly illustrated with engravings, paintings, photographs, and reconstructions.In surveying the iconography of prehistory, Moser explores visions of human creation from their origins in classical, early Christian, and medieval periods through traditions of representation initiated in the Renaissance. She looks closely at the first scientific reconstructions of the nineteenth century, which dramatized and made comprehensible the Darwinian theory of human descent from apes. She considers, as well, the impact of reconstructions on popular literature in Europe and North America, showing that early visualizations of prehistory retained a firm hold on the imagination-a hold that archaeologists and anthropologists have found difficult to shake.

Human evolution --- Prehistoric peoples --- Pictorial works --- History.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Changement social. --- Chine. --- Photographies --- Magnum photos. --- Chine --- Photography --- History --- Magnum Photos --- China --- Pictorial works --- Pictorial works.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Tanks (Military science) --- Belgium --- 1940-1945 --- Pictorial works

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

World War --- 1914-1918 --- Campaigns --- Western Front --- Pictorial works

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Quantité d’œuvres ne sont connues du public que par le biais de leur image photographique (quand ce n’est pas la photographie elle-même qui se substitue à son souvenir). Ce phénomène pose au sein des Visual Studies de vastes questions, liées à la polysémie des œuvres, à la mémoire de ce que l’on regarde et à la patrimonialisation des œuvres en situation d’exposition, mais aussi à l’écriture de l’histoire de l’art et même à l’évolution des pratiques artistiques.Cet ouvrage fait le point sur le nouveau statut des photographies de vues d’exposition : fonction documentaire complexe, entre archive et support de représentation, elles n’ont pas qu’une valeur testimoniale, mais s’inscrivent aussi dans le contexte postmoderne comme des outils artistiques et curatoriaux.

Photography of art. --- Arts audiences --- Art --- Art appreciation --- Exhibitions --- Photography of art --- Photographie d'œuvres d'art --- Arts --- Pictorial works. --- Photographs --- Expositions --- Publics --- Ouvrages illustrés --- Appréciation --- Photographies --- Photographs. --- Arts audiences - Pictorial works --- Art - Exhibitions - Pictorial works --- Art appreciation - Pictorial works --- Art - Exhibitions - Catalogs