222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
222 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Chapter 1 Imagined Histories; Chapter 2 Artisans, Ateliers, and Their Faux Works; Chapter 3 All that Glitters Is not Old; Chapter 4 All Slipped Up and Everywhere To Go; Chapter 5 Clay-Mates, or Imagination Run Riot; Chapter 6 Hard Cheese for Hard Rocks; Chapter 7 Pocket Candy—Lapidary Arts and Objets de Vertu in the Andes; Chapter 8 Woodcarvers, Weavers, and Fake Mummies?; Chapter 9 Phoenicians and Dinosaurs The Squirrelly Side of Forgery;
Biography
Bruhns, Karen O; Kelker, Nancy L
