BAACG Masters in Conservation lecture

Lecture:
"Modern Antiquities: The Looted and the Faked"
Florence Gould Theater
Legion of Honor
100th Avenue
Lincoln Park
San Francisco
September 1, 2012
10am

The Bay Area Art Conservation Guild and the Ancient Art Council
present the 2012 BAACG Masters in Conservation lecture by Dr. David
A. Scott

The talk will discuss the perception of theft as it pertains to
ancient art and the current crisis in terms of museum acquisitions
or holdings acquired after the UNESCO convention date of 1970.  The
conflicting arguments in favor of repatriation of art and its
retention will be highlighted and examples from the author's
experience in Greek and Pre-Colombian Art discussed. The "Getty
Bronze" of a Greek athlete acquired by the Getty Museum in 1976 has
an unusual history and its ownership has been a contentious issue
between the Italian government and the Getty for many years.
Pre-Columbian gold work without any provenance is commonly present
in museum collections as the artifacts were looted from tombs before
making their way into museums. The modern redefining and expansion
of what we call theft complicates the status of these objects and
their rightful ownership. The increasing prevalence of art in our
modern world which is either faked or looted, enhances the concept
of using displayable copies much as Roman copies of ancient Greek
sculptures came to be admired as authentic. The problems of copies
and their use will be discussed in the context of the disputed
origins of ancient art and the input which conservation has had on
several of the important aspects of this subject.

Dr. David A. Scott, Professor, Department of Art History and
Founding Director of the UCLA/Getty Conservation Program has written
extensively concerning the technical examination and conservation of
metallic works of art as well as several studies of pigments from
ancient Egyptian contexts. His book, Copper and Bronze in Art, won
the 2002 award from the Association of American Publishers as the
best Art/Scholarly book published that year. Professor Scott has
written over 100 papers and six books.  His latest venture is to
devise a coherent teaching course on the subject of Art: Fakes,
Forgeries and Authenticity, from which the current talk is derived.

Cost is $15 at the door, free to BAACG and AAC members. Payments can
be made at the door by check or cash.

This lecture is cosponsored by the Bay Area Art Conservation Guild
<URL:http://baacg.org> and the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco <URL:http://www.ancientartcouncil.org>.

For more information or to RSVP via email to baacg.info<-at->gmail<.>com


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