Art and Archaeology: Collaborations, Conversations, Criticisms

250 Pages·2014·8.06 MB·English

by  Ian Alden Russell

One World Archaeology
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Ian Alden Russell • Andrew Cochrane
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Art and Archaeology
Collaborations, Conversations, Criticisms
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Editors
IanAldenRussell AndrewCochrane
DepartmentofArchaeologyandHistoryofArt TheBritishMuseum
KoçUniversity London
Istanbul UnitedKingdom
Turkey
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Contents
1 Introduction................................................... 1
IanAldenRussellandAndrewCochrane
PartI ExplorationandExperimentation
2 ColinRenfrew:AConversation.................................. 9
ColinRenfrew
3 The Cave and the Mind: Towards a Sculptural and Experimental
ApproachtoUpperPalaeolithicArt .............................. 21
AndrewMeirionJones
4 Joining Forces: Neuroaesthetics, ContemporaryVisual art and
ArchaeologicalInterpretationofthePast ......................... 35
LilianaJanik
5 InterfaceI:DayoftheFigurines ................................. 51
AndrewCochraneandIanAldenRussell
PartII CuratorialPractice
6 ArtandArchaeology:TheÁbharagusMeonExhibitionSeries....... 61
IanAldenRussell
7 ArtandKilmainhamGaol:NegotiatingArt’sCriticalIntervention
intheHeritageSite............................................. 83
PatCooke
8 AnotherProofofthePrecedingTheory:Film,Materialities
andStonehenge ................................................ 99
HelenWickstead
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9 Home:AnInstallationforLivingIn .............................. 115
ChristineFinn
PartIII ApplicationandExchange
10 DustandDebitage:AnArchaeologyofFrancisBacon’sStudio ...... 131
BlazeO’Connor
11 CreatingContexts:BetweentheArchaeologicalSiteandArtGallery 141
AntoniaThomas
12 ArtistsConnectingArchaeologists:EncounteringtheThirdKind.... 157
MichaëlJasmin
13 DigitalDwellingatSkaraBrae .................................. 179
AliceWatterson,KieranBaxterandAaronWatson
PartIV ArchaeologyafterArt
14 Pearson|Shanks—Theatre/Archaeology—ReturnandProspect...... 199
MikePearsonandMichaelShanks
15 Art//Archaeology//Art:Letting-GoBeyond........................ 231
DougBailey
Index ............................................................ 251
Contributors
Doug Bailey Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, San
Francisco,USA
Kieran Baxter Duncan of Jordanstone College ofArt and Design, University of
Dundee,Dundee,UK
AndrewCochrane BritishMuseum,London,UK
PatCooke SchoolofArtHistoryandCulturalPolicy, UniversityCollegeDublin,
Dublin,Ireland
ChristineFinn Kent,UK
Liliana Janik Division ofArchaeology, Department ofArchaeology andAnthro-
pology,UniversityofCambridge,Cambridge,UK
MichaëlJasmin Paris,France
AndrewMeirionJones DepartmentofArchaeology, UniversityofSouthampton,
Highfield,UK
BlazeO’Connor SchoolofArchaeology,UniversityCollegeDublin,Ireland
Mike Pearson Department ofTheatre, Film andTelevision Studies,Aberystwyth
University,Aberystwyth,Wales,UK
Colin Renfrew McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of
Cambridge,Cambridge,UK
IanAldenRussell DepartmentofArchaeologyandHistoryofArt,KoçUniversity,
Istanbul,Turkey
MichaelShanks StanfordUniversity,Stanford,USA
Antonia Thomas Archaeology Department, Orkney College, University of the
HighlandsandIslands,Kirkwall,UK
AliceWatterson DigitalDesignStudio,GlasgowSchoolofArt,TheHub,Glasgow,
UK
Helen Wickstead Faculty ofArt, Design andArchitecture, Kingston University,
Surrey,UK
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About the Editor
IanAldenRussell isacurator, designer, andacademicbasedinIstanbul,Turkey.
He is an assistant professor of contemporary art and cultural heritage in the
Department of Archaeology and Art History at Koç University. Previous to this,
he was Curator of the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, and he
continues to curate exhibitions of contemporary art by international as well as
emergingartists.Withanacademicbackgroundinhistory,archaeology,andheritage
studies, hisresearchengageswithartistsingalleries, museums, heritagesites, and
public spaces to address issues around the constitution of cultural heritage. He is
currently co-editing a volume with Michael Shanks (Stanford) and Mike Pearson
(Aberystwyth)forRoutledgeexploringthesethemes. Hispreviouseditedvolumes
includeImages,Representations,andHeritage(Springer:2006)andUnquietPasts
(Ashgate:2010).
Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Istanbul,
RumelifeneriYolu,34450Sariyer,Istanbul
Andrew Cochrane is Project Curator at the British Museum. He has excavated
withtheMuseumofLondonArchaeology,wasaWorldArtFellowattheUniversity
of EastAnglia, and has been a Research Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the
Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. In 2008, he developed the WAC ‘art and
archaeology’ exhibitions and conference with Ian Russell. He has been Project
Curatorfor:ThePowerofDoguexhibition(BritishMuseum:2009),theunearthed
exhibition(SainsburyCentreforVisualArts:2010),andtheIceAgeArt exhibition
(BritishMuseum:2013).Inrecentyears,Andrewhasgreatlyenjoyedcollaborating
withDougBailey,JillCook,AndyJonesandSimonKaner.
BritishMuseum,GreatRussellStreet,WC1B3DGLondon,UK
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