IDS2935- Art Crime Midterm

art

work of visual expression that was valued by the society for more than monetary reasons

crime

behavior that goes beyond the personal and into the public sphere, breaking prohibitory rules or laws, to which legitimate punishments or sanctions are attached, and that requires the intervention of a public authority

cultural heritage

the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations

antiquities

records of past civilizations

UNESCO convention

Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transport of Ownership of Cultural Property (1970)

UNIDROIT convention

Stolen or Illegally Exported Cultural Objects (1995)

provenience

actual find spot and even location on archaeological grid

provenance

general find location and history of ownership

archaeological context

the place where the artifact is found, which layer it was in and what else was in that layer

stirrup-spout vessel

ceramic vessel where the stirrup handle actually forms part of the spout, from pre-columbian south american countries

factoid

an assumption or speculation that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact

The West

North America, Europe, Australia; their norms and values with foundations in Greco-Roman civilization and Western Christianity

antiquities rush

a roughly simultaneous attempt by several individuals or states to take advantage of an opportune moment to extract antiquities for export

colonialism

domination by one political entity by another for material gain

imperialism

indirect influence to cause things to happen by other political power

nationalism

how separate nations are developed

heirloom

comes down from passed generations

antiquary

a person who studies or collects antiquities

epistemic objects

relates to knowledge, object that contains/offers knowledge

decolonization

the action or process of a state withdrawing from a former colony, leaving it independent

the penetration grid

sexual relations are understood where sexual pairs consist of an active penetrator and the other is the passive penetration object

the male gaze:

consciousness of men’s perception of women

iconoclasm

the rejection or destruction of religious images as heretical, or for religious or political reasons