Re-creations: Visualizing Our PastReconstruction of the past has a long history and continues to take a number of different forms; from drawings and paintings, to models, replicas, re-enactments, facial reconstruction and computer modelling. This book is part history and part guide to the process of recreating the past in two- and three-dimensions, explaining how artists of each period represented the past, what social and political agendas were being played out, and how archaeological data is interpreted and transformed into an image. The many examples shown here are taken largely from the pioneering, collaborative work carried out by the National Museum and Galleries of Wales and CADW. |
Contents
Contents | 2 |
WORKING WITH DATA | 14 |
INTERPRETING IN THREE DIMENSIONS | 27 |
LOOKING AT PEOPLE | 38 |
OUR PAST IN THE FUTURE | 48 |
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Abbey Alan Sorrell amphitheatre Antiquaries archaeological evidence archaeological reconstruction Archaeological Trust architect architecture artefacts artists boat bodycolour British buildings Cadw Caerleon Caerphilly Castle Capel Garmon Capel Garmon firedog Cardiff Castle Carmarthenshire Castell Coch chariot Chris Jones-Jenkins Coity Castle colour commissioned construction context Conwy Conwy Castle crannog crayon Criccieth Castle detail dioramas discoveries drawing dress early fifteenth-century excavations experimental archaeology facial reconstruction film Galleries Gower Gwynedd Harlech human images imagination Iron Age Isle of Anglesey Ivan Lapper Kidwelly Llan-gors Llanbedrgoch Llywelyn Llywelyn ab Iorwerth marquis of Bute medieval Monmouthshire Museum of Wales Museum of Welsh National Museum nineteenth century old burial on-site interpretation original painters painting past Pembrokeshire pencil photographs Powys prehistoric re-creating replica Roman roundhouse Royal scene skull Sorrell's specialists St Fagans techniques Terry Ball timber trébuchet Unit of Art Victorian visual watercolour and ink Welsh Historic Monuments William Burges