Faking the ancient Andes
By: Karen O. Bruhns, Nancy L. Kelker.
Contributors: Kelker, Nancy L.
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598743944; 9781598743951
Subjects: Indian art -- Andes Region; Forgery of antiquities -- Andes Region; Art forgeries -- Andes Region; Art, Andean; Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagined histories : the problem of fakes; title: Artisans, ateliers, and their faux works; title: All that glitters is not old; title: All slipped up and everywhere to go; title: Clay-mates or imagination run riot; title: Hard cheese for hard rocks; title: Pocket candy : lapidary arts and objet de vertu in the Andes; title: Woodcarvers, weavers, and fake mummies?; title: Phoenicians and dinosaurs : the squirrely side of forgery; title: Epilogue : money, money!