Art and the archaeologist

Animism, Materiality, and Museums

“…That understanding goes back at least to classical antiquity, and it strikingly under mines our understanding of materials as inert. The geology is based on mixtures of ele 32 On that categorization, see, for example, Scott 2006;Olson 2005;and Lapatin 2003. 33 See BensaudeVincent and Newman 2007, 9, and Cutler 2011 34 An important offshoot of materialculture studies needs to be noted here, because it examines the interplay between matter and form, but gives significant credit to the Stoffe or basic substances of making and life (and social effects).…”

A New Method for Analyzing Data From Visual Artwork

“…Characteristics such as Line and Color are coded separately; technical details such as Medium and Composition are treated as individual codes (Janson & Janson, 2001;Krages, 2005). Similarly, Background (Scott, 2006) is coded separately from Subject Matter, and Perspective is coded separately from Use of Light. The deliberate separation of individual qualities of the artwork makes it possible to recognize trends and changes over time in a quantifiable way that would not be possible if each piece were assessed in an exclusively holistic manner.…”