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Faking Ancient Mesoamerica (Paperback)
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Faking Ancient Mesoamerica (Paperback)
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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.
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