Faking Ancient Mesoamerica
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 15 April 2019
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781598741490
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 346 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 50 illustrations, notes, references, index 4
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Short description:
This is an important accessible introduction to pre-Columbian art fraud of Central Americafor archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals alike.
MoreLong description:
Crystal skulls, imaginative codices, dubious Olmec heads and cute Colima dogs. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Mesoamerican art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Nancy Kelker and Karen Bruhns examine the phenomenon in this eye-opening volume. They discuss the most commonly forged classes and styles of artifacts, many of which were being duplicated as early as the 19th century. More important, they describe the system whereby these objects get made, purchased, authenticated, and placed in major museums as well as the complicity of forgers, dealers, curators, and collectors in this system. Unique to this volume are biographies of several of the forgers, who describe their craft and how they are able to effectively fool connoisseurs and specialists. An important, accessible introduction to pre-Columbian art fraud for archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals alike. A parallel volume by the same authors discusses fakes in Andean archaeology.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Secret Lies of Fakes; Chapter 2 Forgery Is Not New; Chapter 3 The Nine Lives of Fakes; Chapter 4 A Rogues? Gallery of Forgers, Fakers, and Facilitators; Chapter 5 Escaping De Landa?s Bonfire of the Vanities; Chapter 6 Between a Rock and a Hard Fake; Chapter 7 Feat of Clay; Chapter 8 The Lapidary?s Lament; Chapter 9 Skullduggery; Chapter 10 Wooden Men, Golden Gods, and Tales on the Wall; Epilogue Epilogue A Word to the Wise;
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