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History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

Faculty Publications

2008

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This Bridge Called Imagination: On Reading The Arab Image Foundation And Its Collection, Dore Bowen May 2008

This Bridge Called Imagination: On Reading The Arab Image Foundation And Its Collection, Dore Bowen

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This essay examines the benefits and disadvantages of using imagination as a method of historical research in the archive. Employing Jean-Paul Sartre's notion of “image-consciousness” in The Psychology of Imagination, imagination is defined and explored as a form of perception based upon temporal absence or suspension. This method is then discussed in relation to the exhibition “Not Given: Talking of and Around Photographs of Arab Women” (2006), curated by the author with artist Isabelle Massu. The installation was assembled with the cooperation of the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut and traveled from Marseille (2005-06) to San Francisco (2007). The author …


Madaba Plains Project At Jalul, Randall W. Younker, Reem E. Al-Shqour Jan 2008

Madaba Plains Project At Jalul, Randall W. Younker, Reem E. Al-Shqour

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During the 2008 season, Andrews University conducted ex­cavations at Tall Jalul and initiated excavations at the Islamic Village located immediately south of Tall Jalul and 5km east of Madaba, Jordan.