The look of the past
visual and material evidence in historical practice
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Author
Publication
2012 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
66,000 words, Guess
Page Count
264 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100521882427
- ISBN-139780521882422
- ISBN-139780521709064
- ISBN-100521709067
- OCLC Control Number794036018
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780521709064
- Better World Books9780521882422
- Open LibraryOL25339821M
Classifications
- DDC907.2
- LCCD16 .J744 2012
- LCCD16.J744 2012
Description
"How can we use visual and material culture to shed light on the past? Ludmilla Jordanova offers a fascinating and thoughtful introduction to the role of images, objects and buildings in the study of past times. Through a combination of thematic chapters and essays on specific artefacts - a building, a piece of sculpture, a photographic exhibition and a painted portrait - she shows how to analyse the agency and visual intelligence of artists, makers and craftsmen and make sense of changes in visual experience over time. Generously illustrated and drawing on numerous examples of images and objects from 1600 to the present, this is an essential guide to the skills that students need in order to describe, analyse and contextualise visual evidence. The Look of the Past will encourage readers to think afresh about how they, like people in the past, see and interpret the world around them"--
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