Images and Artefacts of the Ancient World (British Academy Occasional Papers) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0197262961 ISBN 13: 9780197262962

Publisher: British Academy, 2005

Synopsis

In this genuinely productive interdisciplinary dialogue, engineering scientists, archaeologists and historians discuss how recent exciting developments in imaging, image analysis, and image display/diffusion can be applied to three-dimensional objects of material culture from the classical world, ranging from inscribed writing tablets to buildings and urban sites. The fifteen papers explore the ways in which the scientific contributors and the historians are thinking about subjectivity of interpretation, visual cognition, and the need to improve the presentation of evidence so as to feed directly back into their own scientific thinking and to encourage genuine innovation in developing methods of image-enhancement and the interpretation of objects.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan K. Bowman is a Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy. Michael Brady is a BP Professor of Information Engineering, University of Oxford; Fellow of the British Academy.

Review:

...a bold, original and well-illustrated collection of fifteen papers addressing state-of-the-art computer-based imaging of ancient visual culture, and it opens up a fruitful collaborative dialogue between the Humanities and the Sciences ... this volume will surely - as the Editors hoped - 'set a standard and a guideline for interdisciplinary research' * Mark Bradley, The Classical Review *

About this edition

• Publisher: British Academy
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0197262961
• ISBN 13: 9780197262962
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Bowman Alan K., Brady Michael