Images in the Making - (Social Archaeology and Material Worlds) by Ing-Marie Back Danielsson & Andrew Meirion Jones & Joshua Pollard (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book presents innovative studies of material images and asks how an appreciation of the making and unfolding of images alters archaeological accounts of prehistoric and historic societies.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book offers an analysis of archaeological imagery based on new materialist approaches. Reassessing the representational paradigm of archaeological image analysis, it argues for the importance of ontology, redefining images as material processes or events that draw together differing aspects of the world. The book is divided into three sections: 'Emergent images', which focuses on practices of making; 'Images as process', which examines the making and role of images in prehistoric societies; and 'Unfolding images', which focuses on how images change as they are made and circulated. Featuring contributions from archaeologists, Egyptologists, anthropologists and artists, it highlights the multiple role of images in prehistoric and historic societies, while demonstrating that scholars need to recognise their dynamic and changeable character.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>This innovative collection examines how an appreciation of the practices involved in making images can alter archaeological accounts of societies. Featuring case studies ranging from prehistoric Britain and Scandinavia to Iberia, the Americas and Dynastic Egypt, it makes a novel contribution to current debates over archaeological art and images. At the core of the book is a new materialist analysis that focuses on the material character of images and their making and unfolding. This approach interprets images as processes or events - conditions of possibility that draw together different aspects of the world. The book is divided into three sections: 'Emergent images' looks at practices of making; 'Images as process' considers the making and role of images in prehistoric societies; and 'Unfolding images' examines how images change as they are made and circulated. The contributors, including archaeologists, Egyptologists, anthropologists and artists, highlight the multiple roles of images in both prehistoric and historic societies, demonstrating that archaeologists need to recognise the dynamic and changeable character of images. <i>Images in the making</i> will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in the archaeology of art and images, art history, media studies and the anthropology of art.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'This is a wide-ranging volume, with papers coving images of Nile hippos in ancient Egypt to gold foil figures in Iron Age Scandinavia. The papers all discuss the creation and use of images and art. [...] Throughout this volume there are informative observations and discussions of how we should understand and think about art and images in the past.' <i>Ulster Archaeological Society</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ing-Marie Back Danielsson is Associate Professor of Archaeology at Uppsala University Andrew Meirion Jones is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton
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