A01=Karen O Bruhns
A01=Nancy L Kelker
academic study of art forgeries
Ancient Mesoamerica
archaeological forgery
art crime investigation
artifact authentication methods
Author_Karen O Bruhns
Author_Nancy L Kelker
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British Museum Research Laboratory
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crystal
Crystal Skulls
cultural heritage protection
Dresden Codex
Du Quai Branly
dumbarton
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esther
Feathered Serpent
Heliacal Rising
Internal Revenue Service
Ix Chel
La Venta
Late Postclassic
leopoldo
Maya Codices
Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
Mixtec Codex
museum collection ethics
oaks
Olmec Art
pasztory
Plaster Of Paris
Pre-columbian Art
pre-Columbian artifact analysis
Precolumbian Art
Robert Woods Bliss
skull
Templo Mayor
Thermo Luminescence
Thermoluminescence Sample
totec
Van Meegeren
Wooden Lintels
xipe
Xipe Totec
Product details
- ISBN 9781598741506
- Weight: 476g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2009
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Kelker, Nancy L; Bruhns, Karen O
