e-publication of Christine Finn's "A life on line: Jacquetta Hawkes, archaeo-poet (1910 - 1996)"
Christine Finn has launched her forthcoming book on the influential and enigmatic British archaeologist-cum-multi-talented spokesperson for archaeology Jacquetta Hawkes.
Finn prefaces the book with her process of 'discovering' the charismatic archaeologist:
"An archaeologist excavating an archaeologist…Those were my thoughts as I began to go through the books in Jacquetta Hawkes’s study shortly after her death. She was still a formidable presence, her house strewn with objects and ephemera which narrated a life of eighty-five years. Not just an archaeologist's life, but that of a poet, novelist, playwright, photographer, journalist, not least a celebrity, too; all aspects of this remarkable woman in time lay in fragments around me, requiring nothing less than rescue archaeology of a literary kind. Invited there to survey, I began to dig as well..."
Read more of Christine Finn's book@Chiasme.soft.books:http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/Metamedia/468.