Absorption, Theatricality and the Image in Deep Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6045141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Severin Fowle, Severin Fowles (0000-0003-3910-3886, Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 679-689 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774317000701 |
| OpenAlex | W2756184247 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
For well over a century, archaeology has been animated by the construction—and, increasingly, the critique—of grand narratives surveying the evolution of politics, economics, technologies, religion and so on. Deep histories of ‘art’ have not been pursued with comparable energy. This essay explores why this is so, and it considers what might be gained from extending the distinctively archaeological approach to human history to include analyses of long-term shifts in the organization and functions of images. In doing so, it proposes that notions of ‘absorption’ and ‘theatricality’ drawn from art-historical conversations might profitably be redeployed to examine deeper cross-cultural patterns
Aesthetics · Art · Deep time · Literature · Narrative · Optics · Physics · Political science · Politics · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Visual Culture and Art Theory · Geology · Paleontology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |