Through a glass, darkly: long-term antiquities auction data in context
| Autor: | Brodie, N |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Cultural Studies
021110 strategic defence & security studies History 060102 archaeology Museology Control (management) 0211 other engineering and technologies Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts 02 engineering and technology Conservation Term (time) Commerce Anthropology Scale (social sciences) Normative 0601 history and archaeology Business |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Cultural Property. 26(3) |
| ISSN: | 1465-7317 0940-7391 |
| Popis: | The antiquities catalogues of major auction houses comprise an accessible long-term source of information about the auction market in antiquities and the market in antiquities more generally. The information contained in these catalogues has been used to investigate the nature and scale of the market and to assess the impact of legal and normative measures of market control. But, by way of two case studies, referencing Iraqi and Cambodian material sold at the New York branch of Sotheby’s, this article argues that, while auction catalogues do provide an invaluable source of information for investigating the antiquities market, it can be misleading. Changing material or monetary statistics might reflect commercial factors unrelated to market control. For more reliable research, long-term auction data should be contextualized with information available from other sources. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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