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M. Shanks, "Archaeology and the forms of history" in Hodder, ed., Interpreting Archaeology

I am arguing:
           for the primacy of interpretation, rather than a past out there and back then;
           for a dynamic unity of past and present in the crafting of culture and history;
           for accepting the loss and decay of the past;
           and therefore the obligation of restitution, our redeeming act of reconstruction.

History sweeps a great pile of debris at our feet. We can hoard fetishistically, be buried by the increasing mass, or use the rich references, evocations and knowledges in our cultural self-production.

This course examines Greek and Roman sculpture and the history of its survival in western art. Many people consider sculpture the ultimate form of Greek and Roman art. Statuary types created in Antiquity have been continuously adopted by all subsequent cultures in the west, from Mediaeval times through the present. How was this sculpture made, displayed, and viewed in Antiquity? How do we see it?

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