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Faking the ancient Andes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruhns, Karen Olsen
Other Authors: Kelker, Nancy L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Indian art > Andes Region.
Forgery of antiquities > Andes Region.
Art > Forgeries > Andes Region.
Art, Andean.
Indians of South America > Andes Region > Antiquities.
Table of Contents:
  • Imagined histories : the problem of fakes
  • Artisans, ateliers, and their faux works
  • All that glitters is not old
  • All slipped up and everywhere to go
  • Clay-mates, or imagination run riot
  • Hard cheese for hard rocks
  • Pocket candy : lapidary arts and objets de vertu in the Andes
  • Woodcarvers, weavers, and fake mummies?
  • Phoenicians and dinosaurs : the squirrely side of forgery
  • Epilogue : money, money!