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Title Ancient muses : archaeology and the arts / edited by John H. Jameson, Jr., John E. Ehrenhard, and Christine A. Finn.

Imprint Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  930.1 An22 2003    ---  Available
 Axe Compact Discs 1st Floor  930.1 An22 2003    ---  Available
Description xii, 247 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + 1 computer laser optical disk (4 3/4 in.).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-229) and index.
Contents More than just "telling the story" : interpretive narrative archaeology / John P. McCarthy -- Archaeologist as playwright / James G. Gibb -- Archaeology goes to the opera / John E. Ehrenhard and Mary R. Bullard -- Archaeology in two dimensions : the artist's perspective / Martin Pate -- Art and imagery as tools for public interpretation and education archaeology / John H. Jameson, Jr. -- Archaeology as a compelling story : the art of writing popular histories / Sharyn Kane and Richard Keeton -- Poetry and archaeology : the transformative process / Christine A. Finn -- Reflections on the design of a public art sculpture for the Westin Hotel, Palo Alto, California / David Middlebrook -- Pompeii : a site for all seasons / David G. Orr -- Evoking time and place in reconstruction and display : the case of Celtic identity and iron age art / Harold Mytum -- Art and archaeology : conflict and interpretation in a museum setting / Michael J. Williams and Margaret A. Heath -- Archaeology of music and performance in the prehistoric American southwest / Emily Donald -- Archaeology's influence on contemporary Native American art : perspectives from a monster / Lance M. Foster -- From rock art to digital image : archaeology and art in aboriginal Australia / Claire Smith and Kirsten Brett -- Archaeology in science fiction and mysteries / David G. Anderson -- RKLOG : archaeologists as fiction writers / Sarah M. Nelson -- Capturing the wanderer : nomads and archaeology in the filming of the English patient / Christine A. Finn -- Is archaeology fiction? Some thoughts about experimental ways of communicating archaeological processes to the "external world" / Nicola Laneri -- Crafting cosmos, telling Sister stories, and exploring archaeological knowledge graphically in hypertext environments / Jeanne Lopiparo and Rosemary A. Joyce.
Subject Archaeology -- Methodology.
Archaeology -- Social aspects.
Archaeology -- Philosophy.
Art and archaeology.
Arts and society.
Public art.
Public history.
Added Author Jameson, John H.
Ehrenhard, John E.
Finn, Christine, 1959-
ISBN 0817312749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0817312730 (alk. paper)

 
    
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