"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium "Past Presented: A Symposium on the History of Archaeological Illustration", held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on October 9-10, 2009."
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-470) and index
Contents:
Perspectives : representing the pre-Columbian past / Joanne Pillsbury -- European antiquarianism and the discovery of the New World / Alain Schnapp -- The first steps on a long journey : archaeological illustration in eighteenth-century New Spain / Leonardo López Luján -- The uncanny tombs in Martínez Compañón's Trujillo del Perú / Lisa Trever -- Beyond Stephens and Catherwood : ancient Mesoamerica as public entertainment in the early nineteenth century / Khristaan D. Villela -- Antonio Raimondi, archaeology, and national discourse : representations and meanings of the past in nineteenth-century Peru / Luis Felipe Villacorta Ostolaza -- Nineteenth-century photographs of archaeological collections from Mexico / Adam T. Sellen -- Drawing glyphs together / Byron Ellsworth Hamann -- "Unavoidable imperfections" : historical contexts for representing ruined Maya buildings / Scott R. Hutson -- "Wings over the Andes" : aerial photography and the dematerialization of archaeology circa 1931 / Jason Weems -- Printed pictures of Maya sculpture / Bryan R. Just -- Telling it slant : imaginative reconstructions of classic Maya life / Stephen D. Houston -- Realizing the illustration potential of digital models and images : beyond visualization / John W. Rick -- Beyond the naked eye : multidimensionality of sculpture in archaeological illustration / Barbara W. Fash