The look of the past visual and material evidence in historical practice
"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 bui...
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Cambridge [etc.] :
Cambridge University Press
2012
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- A handbag?; Introduction; 1. Description and evidence; Essay - a 'sumptuous structure': the Wren Library at Trinity College, Cambridge; 2. Craft, skills and visual intelligence; Essay - 'the jewel of the church': Bernini's Ecstasy of St Teresa; 3. Periodisation; Essay - photographing 'the family of man'; 4. Audiences and display; Essay - deposits of friendship: Renoir's 1908 portrait of Ambroise Vollard; 5. Comparative analysis; List of reference works
