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1. Are images vital sources of historical knowledge that have been insufficiently exploited?
 
images as sources Lynn Hunt, 5-31-03, 5:48 PM
RE: images as sources Wayne Hanley, 6-6-03, 9:29 AM
RE: Images as Sources (June 22, 2003) Barbara Day-Hickman, 6-22-03, 4:40 PM
reading images Lynn Hunt, 6-23-03, 10:44 PM
historical knowledge Vivian Cameron, 7-5-03,
5:15 PM
Some belated comments Warren Roberts, 7-9-03,
10:53 AM
A postscript Warren Roberts 7-9-03, 11:28 AM
More on images as sources Joan B. Landes, 7-12-03,
2:33 PM
RE: More on images as sources Vivian Cameron
7-26-03, 4:22 PM

Subject: RE: images as sources
Posted By: Wayne Hanley
Date Posted: 6-6-03, 9:29 AM

As Lynn advocates, not only in her comment, but in the introduction I also think that there is something to be gained from a discussion of the images. It was interesting to read in the various analyses several common threads emerge, but two questions stick out for me: What was the intent of the creator and what was the message of the images that was “read” by contemporaries? Of the two questions, discerning the “intent” is the easier to answer, particularly if the creator of the image was a skilled artisan. But to begin to understand how these images were “read” by their audiences, they need to be examined in combination with other sources which might offer new insights into how the intent was received. The images themselves cannot answer that type of question.

So yes, more analysis of the images and various types of analysis are needed. After all, as we are reminded in the introduction to this project, serious analysis of Revolutionary imagery is a relatively new area of study.

 
 
 
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