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The Look of the Past Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice

Paperback • 2012 • English • 1. edition

The Look of the Past Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice

By Ludmilla Jordanova

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About the book

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 visu...Show more

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ISBN

9780521709064

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2012

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Look of the Past Visual and Material Evidence in Historical Practice

Format

Paperback

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