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Abstract:"Sleepers" are artworks or collectibles that are undervalued because one or more characteristics go unrecognized. This article discusses 12 sleepers that have been sold at auction on the antiquity market since 2007 whose attribution as antiquities were originally overlooked, either accidentally or deliberately. The objects are presented in the context of a theoretical framework describing both the legal and economic incentives to perform due diligence and to reveal, or "awaken," a sleeper antiquity. The theory implies that sleepers may arise for several reasons, and the case studies are grouped accordingly. Most pressingly, the analysis identifies two ways in which sellers are disincentivized to be transparent about an object's identity: when they can exploit legal loopholes to deliberately misattribute an antiquity and mediate export and when they can hide disagreement about an object's authenticity to mediate its sale. Placing the case studies in the broader market context, we highlight particular areas that should be addressed by policy or regulatory reform. The analysis also has wider applications to other forms of art.

AbstractThis article discusses some of the issues regarding the acquisition of art and the different philosophical views of some of the main protagonists regarding the reclaiming of art by nation-states, following American museums' acceptance of the 1970 UNESCO Convention, using examples from the Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The mediation of Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) claims by conservators is often an important component of the dialogue between museums and native communities. The philosophical and art-historical opinions regarding the value of copies and reproductions of works of art have oscillated from promulgation in the 1860s to outright rejection by the 1920s. In a modernist sense, points of view are once again open to reevaluation as host nations demand back more originals than ever before. Arguments against the claims of nationalist-retentionist countries and those advanced in favor of the claims of nation-states regarding the repatriation of their art are discussed. The problems created by looted art in association with the ever-increasing number of fakes is highlighted, with examples of the issues surrounding pre-Columbian art and some classical antiquities. The utility of copies in relation to the protective value of the authentic piece is discussed in the context of museum examples in which the concept of the utilization of copies for museum display has been accepted in certain cases as desirable.

Cover -- The Antiquities of the Jews -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- BOOK I -- Containing The Interval Of Three Thousand Eight Hundred And Thirty-Three Years. From The Creation To The Death Of Isaac. -- CHAPTER 1 -- The Constitution Of The World And The Disposition Of The Elements. -- CHAPTER 2 -- Concerning The Posterity Of Adam, And The Ten Generations From Him To The Deluge, -- CHAPTER 3 -- Concerning The Flood -- And After What Manner Noah Was Saved In An Ark, With His Kindred, And Afterwards Dwelt In The Plain Of Shinar, -- CHAPTER 4 -- Concerning The Tower Of Babylon, And The Confusion Of Tongues. -- CHAPTER 5 -- After What Manner The Posterity Of Noah Sent Out Colonies, And Inhabited The Whole Earth. -- CHAPTER 6 -- How Every Nation Was Denominated From Their First Inhabitants. -- CHAPTER 7 -- How Abram Our Forefather Went Out Of The Land Of The Chaldeans, And Lived In The Land Then Called Canaan But Now Judea. -- CHAPTER 8 -- That When There Was A Famine In Canaan, Abram Went Thence Into Egypt -- And After He Had Continued There A While He Returned Back Again. -- CHAPTER 9 -- The Destruction Of The Sodomites By The Assyrian Wall. -- CHAPTER 10 -- How Abram Fought With The Assyrians, And Overcame Them, And Saved The Sodomite Prisoners, And Took From The Assyrians The Prey They Had Gotten. -- CHAPTER 11 -- How God Overthrew The Nation Of The Sodomites, Out Of His Wrath Against Them For Their Sins. -- CHAPTER 12 -- Concerning Abimelech -- And Concerning Ismael The Son Of Abraham -- And Concerning The Arabians, Who Were His Posterity. -- CHAPTER 13 -- Concerning Isaac The Legitimate Son Of Abraham. -- CHAPTER 14 -- Concerning Sarah Abraham's Wife -- And How She Ended Her Days. -- CHAPTER 15 -- How The Nation Of The Troglodytes Were Derived From Abraham By Keturah. -- CHAPTER 16 -- How Isaac Took Rebeka To Wife. -- CHAPTER 17.

After setting forth a brief history of public land withdrawals, this comment analyzes the current statutory public land withdrawal scheme as expressed in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) and identifies the various policies underlying FLPMA. Next, an examination of the Antiquities Act's legislative history, judicial interpretation, and use will show that the intended scope of the Act is quite different from both its actual application by Presidents and its interpretation by courts. Evaluating the Act in light of the land withdrawal policies expressed in FLPMA, this comment will conclude that use of the Antiquities Act is so inconsistent with those policies that the Act should be repealed.