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Author:   Paul Bonaventura ,  Andrew Jones ,  Dr. Penelope Curtis ,  Ms. Lisa Le Feuvre
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780754658313

ISBN 10:   0754658317
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   28 August 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Subject/object; new studies in sculpture, Lisa Le Feuvre; Introduction - shaping the past: sculpture and archaeology, Andrew Jones and Paul Bonaventura; Shared sites and misleading affinities: sculpture as archaeology and archaeology as sculpture, Will Rea; Archaeology, photography, sculpture: correspondence and mediations in the 19th century and beyond, Frederick N. Bohrer; The first plaster casts of the Pompeian victims, Eugene Dwyer; The illusion of permanence: archaeology imperialism and British public sculpture between the World Wars, Jonathan Black; Biographies in stone: place, memory and the prehistory of sculpture, Andrew Jones; Mirrored practices: Robert Smithson and archaeological fieldwork, Flora Vilches; Out of site: the Boyles' Dig (1966) and the Institute of Contemporary Archaeology, Jon Wood; Stainless steel/standing stones: reflections on Anish Kapoor at the Rollright Stones, Robert J. Wallis; The caves of Gallizio and Hirschhorn: excavations of the present, Frances Stracey; 'Fix'd statue on the pedestal of Scorn': the politics and poetics of displaying the Parthenon Marbles in Athens and London, Helen Rees Leahy; Communicating in the present tense: an interview with Simon Callery, Paul Bonaventura; Index.

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'[Sculpture and Archaeology will make] an important contribution to the growing interest in the archaeological imagination, in its metaphors and its incursions into other fields.' Jennifer Wallace, University of Cambridge, UK

'[Sculpture and Archaeology will make] an important contribution to the growing interest in the archaeological imagination, in its metaphors and its incursions into other fields.' Jennifer Wallace, University of Cambridge, UK

Author Information

Paul Bonaventura is the Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art Studies at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford. Andrew Jones is Reader in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Southampton. Lisa Le Feuvre, Andrew Jones, Paul Bonaventura, Will Rea, Frederick N. Bohrer, Eugene Dwyer, Jonathan Black, Flora Vilches, Jon Wood, Robert J. Wallis, Frances Stracey, Helen Rees Leahy.

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