The Lie Became Great (Studies in the Art and Archaeology of Antiquity)

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The Lie Was Great explores the closed society of international plunderers and forgers which thrives as a subculture of the Art World. These multi-cultural denizens come with antiquity dealers, collectors, museum curators, forgers working together with auction houses, museums and galleries. Forgeries are made to be sold, and an ideal number pass into the Art World – collections, exhibitions, catalogues, and popular and scholarly journals – complete with their fabricated stories of excavation, and the way they were found. The Lie Was Great documents the luck and activities of 1 small corner of this vast network – artifacts form the Ancient Close to East – with hundreds of detailed catalogue entries of forgeries. The participants on this society gain money, prestige, power, position as they distort and irretrievably damage the real story of our cultural heritage. STYX PUBLICATIONS

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