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Faking Ancient Mesoamerica by Nancy L Kelker; Karen Olsen Bruhns is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Faking Ancient Mesoamerica about?

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.

Who reads Faking Ancient Mesoamerica?

Author

Nancy L Kelker; Karen Olsen Bruhns

Publisher

Left Coast Press; Routledge

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781315428598

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Archaeology