A01=Karen O Bruhns
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Andean archaeology
antiquities
archaeological forgery
art market regulation
artifact authentication
Author_Karen O Bruhns
Author_Nancy L Kelker
Banco Central Del Ecuador
Casa De La Cultura Ecuatoriana
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Central Colombia
Ceramic Figurines
cultural heritage crime
dumbarton
Elmyr De Hory
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Erich Von Daniken
FAKE MUMMIES
genuine
gold
Gold Museum
heads
Jaguar Paw
Kuntur Wasi
Las Animas
market
Moche Art
Monumental Stone Carving
museum
museum collection ethics
Naked Ladies
oaks
Oil Birds
Pre-Columbian Art
pre-Columbian artifact forgeries
Precolumbian Art
Raptorial Birds
robert
Robert Woods Bliss
Shell Inlay
Staff God
Steatite Vessels
Stone Cups
Stone Vessels
trophy
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781598743951
- Weight: 317g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2010
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nasca pots, Quimbaya figurines, Moche porn figures, stone shamans. Fakes and forgeries run rampant in the Andean art collections of international museums and private individuals. Authors Karen Bruhns and Nancy Kelker 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. This is 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 Mesoamerican archaeology.
Bruhns, Karen O; Kelker, Nancy L
