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The visual devices used by Tony Blair and George Bush to get themselves elected and maintain power, come not from modern times, but a world that is thousands of years old. How Art Made the World ventures back to the creation of Stonehenge... more
The discovery of prehistoric cave paintings in the nineteenth century led to the shocking realisation that humans have been creating art for over 30,000 years. Episode two reveals how the very first pictures were created, and how images... more
One image dominates our contemporary world above all others: the human body. How Art Made the World travels from the modern world of advertising to the temples of classical Greece and the tombs of ancient Egypt to solve the mystery of why... more
Η παρούσα εργασία αφορά τον σχεδιασμό μίας εφήμερης / “pop-up” έκθεσης, όπου ένας ανασκαφικός χώρος, αυτός της Κουτρουλού Μαγούλας στη Φθιώτιδα, αποτελεί τον βασικό σεναριακό σκελετό για την αφήγηση των πολλαπλών εννοιών που σχετίζονται... more
Each year over seven billion people across the world are drawn to see the latest feature films at the cinema. This episode reveals how the most powerful storytelling medium ever created exploits visual techniques invented by artists in... more
Art and Archaeology: Unmasking Material Culture, volume editor David Barrowclough, General editors David Barrowclough and Mary Chester-Kadwell. Papers by: Colin Renfrew: Foreward David Barrowclough: Art and Archaeology, Unmasking... more
Sightations is an archaeology-inspired exhibition running as part of this year’s Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference. In keeping with this year’s conference theme of ‘visualisation’, this exhibit seeks to unpack what it means... more
A une époque où on dessine ce que l'on voit, à la manière des photos ou des captures d'écran, l'art égyptien ne peut que nous paraître bizarre : pas de perspective, quasiment jamais de personnes de face, et des combinaisons étranges de... more
This outstanding new publication is the outcome of a long-running project investigating the 'art' of Neolithic Britain, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and principally inspired by Gosden and Garrow's Rethinking Celtic Art. As the authors... more
Contemporary sculpture has gradually developed into what we could describe as a wide program of research that takes a critical look at what we are. Characterized by a multiple or expanded nature, it is becoming culturally and socially... more
The ongoing European 'refugee crisis' is, among other things, a reminder that waterways have been connecting people for as long as we have been building boats. Since the Paleolithic, boats took travelers from one coast to another shore,... more
This article explores how we might use artistic representations to protect future generations from the dangers inherent in the burial of radioactive waste, taking the work of artists Bryan McGovern Wilson and Robert Williams in Cumbria,... more
This forum response questions the 'creative turn' in archaeology with specific reference to the work of the Archaeology/Heritage/Art Research Network - a loose constellation of academics, artists, events and activities which aims... more
This is a video of the conference paper entitled "Going beyond and letting go: non-archaeological art and non-artistic archaeology" that Professor Bailey gave at the 2013 Theoretical Archaeology Group in Chicago (in the session called The... more
É indiscutível que a ciência está na base do desenvolvimento tecnológico, económico e social das sociedades modernas. Mas é igualmente evidente que as mais importantes questões políticas e sociais estão enraizadas na ciência.Assim é que a... more
Art and Archaeology: Unmasking Material Culture, volume editor David Barrowclough, General editors David Barrowclough and Mary Chester-Kadwell. Papers by: Colin Renfrew: Foreward David Barrowclough: Art and Archaeology, Unmasking... more
The drive to collect seems near universal, but nowhere is it so rarefied as in the world of art connoisseurship. This paper considers the work of contemporary artists, father and son Robert and Jack Williams. I focus on the relationship... more
Art and Archaeology: Unmasking Material Culture, volume editor David Barrowclough, General editors David Barrowclough and Mary Chester-Kadwell. Papers by: Colin Renfrew: Foreward David Barrowclough: Art and Archaeology, Unmasking... more
THE MATERIALITY OF THE INVISIBLE offers a hitherto unknown opportunity to research in practice the interaction between artists and archaeologists, to work together in close confines, to profoundly exchange information and to thoroughly... more
European Association of Archaeologists Annual Conference 2013. A paper exploring the potential in collaborations between the arts and archaeology, particularly in terms of rural engagement. In collaboration with archaeologist David... more