The Plundered Past

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Atheneum, 1977 - Archaeological thefts - 353 pages
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"The story of the illegal international traffic in works of art"--Cover subtitle.

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Contents

AFTER CORTES 1 The Profits of Art
3
The Maya Mask
12
The Winged Temple
21
Copyright

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The Plundered Past
Karl Ernest Meyer
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acquired acquisition ancient Ankara antiquities archaeological sites archaeologists art market Art Museum auction Boston Museum Bothmer British bronze carved century a.d. Cerveteri collection collector Convention country of origin cultural heritage cultural property curator dealer destruction director Dorak Elgin Elgin Marbles Etruscan Euphronios Euphronios krater excavations exhibition export fake France funds Gallery Grolier Club Guatemala Guatemala City Hoving Ian Graham illegally illicit important Indian institutions interest Italian Italy krater Kumluca later laws legislation Lerici London looting Machaquila major Marbles mask Maya Metropolitan Museum Mexican Mexico City million monuments Mus5m objects Olmec paintings Paris Party past permit pieces police Pomerance pre-Columbian art problem prohibited protect purchase Raphael recovered reported Rome Saenz scholars sculpture or mural seum Siviero smuggled sold Stela stolen temple theft Tikal tion tomb trade treasure Turkey UNESCO United University Vermeule Yaxha York

About the author (1977)

Karl E. Meyer was a longtime foreign correspondent and editorial writer at "The Washington Post" and "The New York Times" and the Editor of the World Policy Journal. A Princeton Ph.D., he has taught at Yale, Princeton, and Tufts Fletcher School. His fourteen books include "The Plundered Past", on the illicit trade in antiquities; "The Art Museum: Power, Money, Ethics"; and "The Pleasures of Archaeology".

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TitleThe Plundered Past
AuthorKarl Ernest Meyer
Editionillustrated
PublisherAtheneum, 1977
Original fromIndiana University
DigitizedJun 2, 2010
ISBN0689705514, 9780689705519
Length353 pages
  
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