Ambrus and Aston "Recreating the Past"

• Landscape and architectural reconstruction in images can be done quite accurately, thanks to scientific technology (pollen analysis, snail analysis, etc.); but artists have to depend on their imaginations when it comes to depicting everyday life routines (clothing, social norms, etc.)
• Archaeological illustrators collaborate with archaeologists, pathologists (skeletal analysis leads to an accurate reconstruction of physical features of a dead person), and sometimes re-enactors (history "enthusiasts" (15)) to get some tips!
• "Feedback mechanism" (15): Artists can pose a new light on how archaeologists should interpret their excavated sites; in their process of drawing, they must come up with questions that have traditionally been neglected by pedantic archaeologists and therefore stimulates the development of the field.

~Art History~

• The encounter with the New World's native Americans ==> 16th century artist John White marks the beginning of art's association with the past.

Article "John White and Britis antiquity: Savage origins in the context of Tudor historiography" by Sam Smiles:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/4-Smiles-JW%20and%20British%20Antiquity.pdf

• William Bell Scott's Victorian painting ==> Inaccurate, romanticised depiction of a certain "event" (10)
• A. Forestier's early attempt of "artistic reconstruction" (11) in the late 19th century
• Alan Sorrell - the most prominent artist who accurately reconstructed the past in collaboration with archaeologists. *And there are links to other recent artists.

Victor Ambrus:

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/biog_victor.html

Peter Connolly:

http://www.akg-images.com/akg_couk/_customer/london/collections/connolly.html

Peter Dunn:

http://westarch.ning.com/profile/PeterDunn

Judith Dobie:

This link is of Association of Archaeological Illustrators and Surveyors; it might be interesting to look inside.

http://www.aais.org.uk/html/portfolio/portfolio-view.asp?ID=2

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/files/Learning/avebury_teachers_kit/investigate_avebury_henge_and_west_kennet_avenue.pdf

Frank Gardiner:

http://frankgardner.blogspot.com/

Ivan Lapper:

http://www.selectideas.co.uk/ivanlapper/index.htm

http://www.ospreypublishing.com/authors/ivan_lapper/

http://www.selectideas.co.uk/ivanlapper/about.htm

http://www.john-noott.com/artist/lapper%20arsma~ivan/lapper-arsma~ivan.php

Jane Brayne:

www.somersetartworks.org.uk/artists/jane-brayne

http://www.somerset.gov.uk/countryside/quantockhills/library/pdf/HistoricLandscape.pdf

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pondyacht/3871093821/

Something relevant:

Re-Creations: Visualizing Our Past

http://books.google.com/books?id=DAwPUqHbVh0C&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=chris+jones-jenkins+artist&source=bl&ots=zFSKLPHAl0&sig=fT2Gun2115urhDB3nKdacHStC9M&hl=ja&ei=Cdy_Stn_CY-m8AbTsZGdAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=chris%20jones-jenkins%20artist&f=false

New Vocab:

• "there do not appear to be any attempts to take an archaeological sites ... and show what it might have been like in its heyday drawing on artist's imagination" (10) ==> during its peak, the most glorious time.
• "The Illustrated London News commissioned the picture as they had for the other sites" (11) ==> ordered the picture to be published in the magazine.
• "However, the draughtsmanship and attention to detail is impressive and the reconstructions are real works of art" (11) ==> the skill of an artist who makes a technical drawing of a building, etc. In Japanese, "seizusha".
• pedantic, donnish ==> Japanese: "Gakushahada-no"; characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules. http://www.answers.com/topic/pedantic