Our Ancient Monuments”
Visualizing Documents in Stone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12410056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Edwards (0000-0003-2973-8749, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-36 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1058-7187 • E-ISSN: 1548-7458 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/var.12176 |
| OpenAlex | W2944962424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article explores the ways in which, during the interwar period, practices of state preservation of ancient monuments in Britain established a visual rhetoric of “monument as document.” This was expressed through photographic postcards and the visual presentation of monuments themselves. Informed by an entangled ethos of scientific archaeological understanding, public education, and discourses of public ownership, I argue that photographs established and projected patterns of visibility and legibility, which addressed these core values of preservation, educative interpretation, and public access, within the practices of the “techno‐state.”
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Ethos · Geography · Interpretation (philosophy · Legibility · Linguistics · Period (music · Political science · Presentation (obstetrics · Rhetoric · State (computer science · Visibility · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
The Past is a Foreign Country – Revisited
The State of Freedom
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research
Landscape and Englishness
From Plunder to Preservation
Useful Culture
Towards world heritage
The face of the past
The Culture of History
The structural transformation of the public sphere
The birth of the museum
Materiality in the Future of History
The Scouring of the White Horse
Along the Archival Grain
Publics and Counterpublics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |