Antiquities: What Everyone Needs to Know®

The destruction of ancient monuments and artworks by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has shocked observers worldwide. Yet iconoclastic erasures of the past date back at least to the mid-1300s BCE, during the Amarna Period of ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty. Far more damage to the past has been inflicted by natural disasters, looters, and public works. Art historian Maxwell Anderson's Antiquities: What Everyone Needs to Know® analyzes continuing threats to our heritage, and offers a balanced account of treaties and laws governing the circulation of objects; the history of collecting antiquities; how forgeries are made and detected; how authentic works are documented, stored, dispersed, and displayed; the politics of sending antiquities back to their countries of origin; and the outlook for an expanded legal market. Anderson provides a summary of challenges ahead, including the future of underwater archaeology, the use of drones, remote sensing, and how invisible markings on antiquities will allow them to be traced. Written in question-and-answer format, the book equips readers with a nuanced understanding of the legal, practical, and moral choices that face us all when confronting antiquities in a museum gallery, shop window, or for sale on the Internet.

Anderson, Maxwell L.

Arts & Photography

Oxford University Press

The destruction of ancient monuments and artworks by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has shocked observers worldwide. Yet iconoclastic erasures of the past date back at least to the mid-1300s BCE, during the Amarna Period of ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty. Far more damage to the past has been inflicted by natural disasters, looters, and public works. Art historian Maxwell Anderson's Antiquities: What Everyone Needs to Know� analyzes continuing threats to our heritage, and offers a balanced account of treaties and laws governing the circulation of objects; the history of collecting antiquities; how forgeries are made and detected; how authentic works are documented, stored, dispersed, and displayed; the politics of sending antiquities back to their countries of origin; and the outlook for an expanded legal market. Anderson provides a summary of challenges ahead, including the future of underwater archaeology, the use of drones, remote sensing, and how invisible markings on antiquities will allow them to be traced. Written in question-and-answer format, the book equips readers with a nuanced understanding of the legal, practical, and moral choices that face us all when confronting antiquities in a museum gallery, shop window, or for sale on the Internet.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

In this striking publication, relief sculptures and related drawings by Manuel Neri are beautifully presented. The extensive body of work shows a grounding in a long sculptural tradition that underscores Neri's significance as a sculptor of international renown. His sculptures possess incredibly rich and evocative surfaces, and his ability to depict the figural form in various media with equal mastery and sensitivity is unrivaled. His dedication and extraordinary work in plaster, ceramic, bronze and stone have merited him the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center. Also available: Manuel Neri: Artists' Books/The Collaborative Process ISBN 9781555952594 %35.00

Manuel Neri: The Figure in Relief

Nixon, Bruce

Individual Artists

Lucia|Marquand

How do we judge what is good in art? Or more to the controversial point, can we judge art? Acclaimed museum director Maxwell Anderson, newly named Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, enters the fray with The Quality Instinct. Part personal memoir, part thinking person's guide to the museum, The Quality Instinct is filled with wit and humor, anecdotes, and insights from the author's 30 years in the highly competitive, often contentious art world. Anderson takes us on a grand tour of ancient and contemporary art, sharing five simple metrics of quality that help us to increase our "visual literacy" as we learn to see, not simply look and judge.

The Quality Instinct: Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

History & Criticism

American Alliance Of Museums

The twenty-two masterworks in this exhibition—loaned to Emory University Museum by the Museo Nazionale Romano—include some of the most significant Roman portrait sculptures known. In the exhibition catalog, each portrait is first presented in a striking full-color photograph, and then detailed in four different perspectives in black and white photographs, accompanied by a detailed scholarly description.Two historical essays by the authors place the magnificent sculptures in the context of Roman society and relate whatever information survives about their discovery.

Roman Portraits in Context: Imperial and Private Likenesses from the Museo Nazionale Romano

University of Pennsylvania Press

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Winter 1987/88. Lavishly illustrated. Map. Bibliography. 56p. Map.

Pompeian Frescoes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reference

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Antiquities: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Antiquities: What Everyone Needs to Know®

Manuel Neri: The Figure in Relief

The Quality Instinct: Seeing Art Through a Museum Director's Eye

Roman Portraits in Context: Imperial and Private Likenesses from the Museo Nazionale Romano

Pompeian Frescoes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art