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The Lives of Images Peter Mason ‘…aniconologicalanalysisthatcanrangefreely,withnofear of borderguards…bytakingpainstoilluminateonesingle obscurity,cancastlightongreatanduniversalevolutionary processesinalltheirinterconnectedness’ The Lives of Images SeriesEditors PeterBurke,SanderL.Gilman,LudmillaJordanova, RoyPorter,†BobScribner(–) Inthesameseries HealthandIllness LandscapeandEnglishness ImagesofDifference . TheThief,theCrossandtheWheel MeninBlack PainandtheSpectacleofPunishmentin MedievalandRenaissanceEurope . DismemberingtheMale Men’sBodies,BritainandtheGreatWar ‘DownwiththeCrown’ BritishAnti-monarchismandDebatesabout Royaltysince EyesofLove TheGazeinEnglishandFrenchPainting andNovels– TheJewishSelf-Image AmericanandBritishPerspectives ‒ TheDestructionofArt IconoclasmandVandalismsincetheFrench Revolution GlobalInterests RenaissanceArtbetweenEastandWest TheFeminineIdeal PicturingTropicalNature MapsandPolitics RepresentingtheRepublic MappingtheUnitedStates‒ TradingTerritories MappingtheEarlyModernWorld BodiesPolitic PicturingEmpire Disease,DeathandDoctorsinBritain, PhotographyandtheVisualizationofthe ‒ BritishEmpire Eyewitnessing PicturesandVisualityinEarly TheUsesofImagesasHistoricalEvidence ModernChina TheArtofSuicide MirrorinParchment . TheLuttrellPsalterandtheMakingof MedievalEngland The Lives of Images Peter Mason paraAnneChapman,laquetieneelcorazónmásgrande PublishedbyReaktionBooksLtd FarringdonRoad,London, www.reaktionbooks.co.uk Firstpublished Copyright©PeterMason Allrightsreserved Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystemortransmitted,inany formorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical, photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublishers. SeriesdesignbyHumphreyStone PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby Bookcraft,MidsomerNorton BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Mason,Peter,‒ Thelivesofimages.–(Picturinghistory) .Art,European.Humanbeingsinart I.Title . Contents Acknowledgements Introduction TheLives(andDeaths)of FuegiansandTheirImages BeingThere FromAmericatoOxfordshire? ThePurloinedCodex ImagesandObjects References PhotographicAcknowledgements Index Acknowledgements The research behind this book was conducted in Santiago de Chile, London, Brussels, Paris, Krakow and Amsterdam. I am grateful to RobertoEdwardsandtheFundaciónAméricaforhostingmystaysin Santiago, to Francisco Bethencourt and the Gulbenkian Foundation for doing the same in Paris, and to the members of the various archives and libraries who patiently responded to my inquiries and supplied the original photographs, in particular David Newman of thelibraryof theSouthAmericanMissionSocietyatAllenGardiner Cottage,TunbridgeWells. Themainargumentof thebook,assummarizedinChapter,was presentedasaciclodeconferenciasattheInstituteof Aesthetics,Ponti- ficiaUniversidadCatólicadeChile,inMarchatthekindinvita- tion of Margarita Alvarado Pérez. Its final form has benefited from those lively discussions in Santiago. An early version of Chapter appeared in English as ‘En tránsito: Los fueguinos, sus imágenes en Europa,ylospocosqueregresaron’,inP.MasonandC.Odone,eds, CulturasdePatagonia:Miradas:Ensayossobrelospueblospatagóni- cos. An earlier version of Chapter appeared as ‘Ethnographic Portraiture in the Eighteenth Century: George Psalmanaazaar’s Drawings of Formosans’, in Eighteenth-Century Life, XXIII () – thoughIwouldnowprefertowrite‘“Ethnographic”Portraiture’.An earlier version of Chapter , written after Arthur MacGregor had tippedmeoff abouttheHarmanmonumentandBrendaKirschhad takenmetoBurford,waspresentedattheconferenceentitled‘Natura eCultura:L’interpretazionedelmondofisiconeitestienelleimmag- ini’ at the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana di Scienze, Lettere ed Arte, Mantua, in October at the kind invitation of Giuseppe Olmi. It was subsequently published as ‘Of Turkeys and Men: Towards a Historical Iconography of New World Ethnographic and NaturalHistoricalRepresentation’inthevolumewiththesametitle as the conference, edited by L. Tongiorgi Tomasi, G. Olmi and A. Zanca(Florence,).Ashorterversionof Chapterwaspresented totheTagungderdeutschsprachigenEthnologinnenundEthnologen inViennainSeptemberatthekindinvitationof AdamJones.It wassubsequentlypublishedinJournaloftheHistoryofCollections,IX ().Thesectionof ChapteronHumboldtisbasedon‘Moving Mountains and Raising the Dead’, in M. Jansen and L. Reyes, eds, GarcíaCódices,CaciquesyComunidades(Leiden,). Although I live and work in Amsterdam, this book was written without support from any Dutch institution. As an independent writer, I am all the more dependent on friends and colleagues for passing on articles and other materials and for making valuable suggestions.Itisthusapleasuretoacknowledgetheassistanceof all those who have helped in various ways: Margarita Alvarado Pérez, Christian Báez Allende, Clare Baines, Nicolas Barker, Christine Barthe, Ernst van den Boogaart, Giancarlo Carabelli, Anne Chap- man, Eugenio Dittborn, Jacqueline Dubois, Elizabeth Edwards, Christian Feest, Jean Fisher, Caterina di Girolamo, Paula Honorato, Maarten Jansen, Adam Jones, Geneviève Lacambre, Sebastián López, Colin McEwan, Arthur MacGregor, Pedro Mege Rosso, Carolina Odone, Giuseppe Olmi, Marisol Palma, José Pardo Tomás, Elaine Reichek, Luis Ángel Sánchez Gómez, Ben Schmidt, Claudia Swan,ChristelVerhasandTheaVignau-Wilberg.Muchasgracias. IthasbeenapleasuretoworkwiththeeditorialteamatReaktion, especiallyAndreaBelloliandHarryGilonis. Florike Egmond’s contribution is unique. Without it, I would be nowhere.Mydebtof gratitudetoherisboundless.
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