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Cornelius Holtorf • Angela Piccini (eds .)
Contemporary Archaeologies
Excavating Now
Second Edition
his book is about the archaeology of the
present and the very recent past . Archaeology’s
repertoire of questions, procedures,
methodologies and terminologies, its material
manifestations (protected sites, public museums,
archives) and its popular appeals are rooted in
modernity . Contemporary archaeologies marry
archaeology in the modern world with the archaeology
of the modern world . Their strengths
lie in a stimulating mix of interdisciplinary
practices across academic, public-sector and
professional contexts . This book brings together
a wide variety of original case-studies,
from contemporary theme parks to the bases
of Antarctica expeditions, from a rocket engine
test site in Australia to Swedish automobile
history, from tiger enclosures to the ‘privatisation
of experience’, and from a Nevada
peace camp to a stretch of gutter in Bristol .
Contents: Angela Piccini/Cornelius Holtorf:
Fragments from a Conversation about Contemporary
Archaeologies • Julian Thomas: Sigmund
Freud’s Archaeological Metaphor and
Archaeology’s Self-understanding • Cornelius
Holtorf: Imagine This: Archaeology in the Experience
Economy • Sarah May: Then Tyger
Sébastien Clerbois •
Martina Droth (eds)
Revival and Invention
Sculpture through
its Material Histories
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles,
Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011 .
XXIV, 274 pp ., num . coloured and b/w ill .
pb . ISBN 978-3-03911-552-5
CHF 78 .– / € D 53 .50 / € A 55 .– / € 50 .– /
£ 45 .– /US-$ 77 .95
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011 .
221 pp ., num . fig .
pb . ISBN 978-3-631-61142-5
CHF 57 .– / € D 39 .– / € A 40 .– / € 36 .40 / £ 32 .80 / US-$ 56 .95
€ D includes VAT – valid for Germany · € A includes VAT – valid for Austria
Fierce Took Life Away: The Contemporary Material
Culture Of Tigers • Mike Pearson: ‘Professor
Gregory’s Villa’ and Piles of Pony Poop: Early
Expeditionary Remains in Antarctica • Colleen
M . Beck/John Schofield/Harold Drollinger: Archaeologists,
Activists, and a Contemporary
Peace Camp • Louise K . Wilson: Notes on a
Record of Fear: On the Threshold of the Audible
• Mats Burström: Garbage or Heritage: The
Existential Dimension of a Car Cemetery • Jonna
Ulin: Into the Space of the Past: A Family Archaeology
• Alice Gorman: Beyond The Space
Race: The Material Culture Of Space In A New
Global Context • Angela Piccini: Guttersnipe:
A Micro Road Movie • Paul Graves-Brown: The
Privatisation of Experience and the Archaeology
of the Future .
Cornelius Holtorf is Associate Professor
in Archaeology at Linnaeus University,
Kalmar (Sweden) . He recently published two
books on archaeology and popular culture .
AngelA PiCCini is Senior Lecturer in
Screen Studies at the School of Arts at the
University of Bristol (UK) . She recently co-edited
books on contemporary archaeology and
practice-as-research .
M
aterials may seem to be sculpture’s
most obvious aspect . Traditionally
seen as a means to an end, and frequently studied
in terms of technical procedures, their intrinsic
meaning often remains unquestioned .
Yet materials comprise a field rich in meaning,
bringing into play a wide range of issues
crucial to our understanding of sculpture . This
book places materials at the centre of our approach
to sculpture, examining their symbolic
and aesthetic language, their abstract and
philosophical associations, and the ways in
which they reveal the political, economic and
social contexts of sculptural practice . Spanning
a chronology from antiquity through to the
end of the nineteenth century, the essays collected
in this book uncover material properties
as fundamental to artistic intentionality .
Contents: Sébastien Clerbois/Martina
Droth: Introduction • Michael Cole: The Cult
of Materials • Carol Mattusch: The Privilege
of Bronze: Modern Perception of Classical
Materials • Fabio Barry: A Whiter Shade of
Pale: Relative and Absolute White in Roman
Sculpture and Architecture • Martin Hirsch:
The Late Gothic Clay Sculpture of Bavaria •
Maarten Delbeke: Matter Without Qualities?
Wax in Giacomo Vivio’s Discorso of 1590 •
Emilie Passignat: Twisting Marble: Observations
on the Figura Serpentinata and its Applications
• Philippe Malgouyres: Coloured
Stones, Sculpted Objects: Subjects for Sculpture
• Malcolm Baker: Shifting Materials,
Shifting Values? Contemporary Responses to
the Materials of Eighteenth-Century Sculpture
• Catherine Chevillot: Nineteenth-Century
Sculpteurs and Mouleurs: Developments
in Theory and Practice • Sébastien Clerbois:
The Revival of Ivory Sculpture in Belgium
(1890-1910): The Material in Question .
sébAstien Clerbois is Assistant Professor
of History of Art at the Université libre
de Bruxelles, Belgium .
MArtinA DrotH is Head of Research and
Curator of Sculpture at the Yale Center for
British Art, USA .
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