Past presented : archaeological illustration and the ancient Americas /

Title:

Past presented : archaeological illustration and the ancient Americas /

Format:

Book, Image

Institution:

MassArt, Museum of Fine Arts

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.

Online access:

No online access

Library holdings:

MassArt Main
E58 .P27 2012 – Available

MFA Art of the Americas and Art of Europe Library
E58 .P27 2012 – Available