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Author | : Elizabeth Hill Boone |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Central America |
ISBN | : 9780884023739 |
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The history of Pre-Columbian collecting is a social and aesthetic history--of ideas, people and organizations, and objects. This richly illustrated volume examines these histories by considering the collection and display of Pre-Columbian objects in Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Some of the thirteen essays locate the collecting process within its broader cultural setting in order to explain how and why such collections were formed, while others consider how collections have served as documents of culture within the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology, and as objects of fine art or aesthetic statements within the art and art historical worlds. Nearly all contemplate how such collections have been used as active signifiers of political, economic, and cultural power. The thirteen essays were originally presented at a symposium commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Pre-Columbian Collection at Dumbarton Oaks. They continue to be groundbreaking contributions to the histories of collecting and Pre-Columbian art.
Author | : Stefanie Gänger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2014-05 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0199687692 |
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Relics of the Past tells the story of antiquities collecting, antiquarianism, and archaeology in Cuzco and Lima over the Araucanian territories and the War of the Pacific in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. While the role of foreign travellers and scholars dedicated to the study of South America's pre-Columbian past is well documented, historians have largely overlooked the knowledge gathered and the collections formed among collectors of antiquities, antiquaries, and archaeologists born or living in South America during this period. The landed gentry, the clergy, and an urban bourgeoisie of doctors, engineers, and military officials put antiquities on display in their private mansions or bestowed them upon the public museums that were being formed by municipalities and governments in Santiago de Chile, Cuzco, or Lima. Men, and some few women, gathered antiquities on their journeys 'inland' and during sociable weekend excursions, but also on quotidian commercial voyages or in military campaigns. They bartered antiquities with their fellow collectors or haggled about their price on the antiquities market. In their hours of leisure, they marvelled at them, wrote about them, and disputed over their meaning, age, and interest in learned societies, informal gatherings, and at meetings in universities and public museums. This volume unveils a hitherto largely unknown world of antiquarian and archaeological collecting and learning in Peru and Chile.
Author | : Joanne Pillsbury |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : 9780884023807 |
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Volume based on the papers presented at the symposium "Past Presented: A Symposium on the History of Archaeological Illustration" held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library annd Collection, WAshinton D.C. on October 9-10, 2009
Author | : John W. Hessler |
Publisher | : Giles |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781911282396 |
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A completely new and revealing story of Pre- and Post-Columbian art as told through over sixty extraordinary artefacts now in the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress.
Author | : Colin McEwan |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Indian art |
ISBN | : 9780884024699 |
Download Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The final installment in the series of catalogues of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection, Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks examines a comprehensive collection of jade and gold objects from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. Full color photographs illustrate the breathtaking works of Indigenous artists and artisans.
Author | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Karl A. Taube |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780884022756 |
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Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks presents the Olmec portion of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art. It illustrates all thirty-nine Olmec art objects in color plates and includes many complementary and comparative black-and-white illustrations and drawings. The body of Pre-Columbian art that Robert Bliss carefully assembled over a half-century between 1912 and 1963, amplified only slightly since his death, is a remarkably significant collection. In addition to their aesthetic quality and artistic significance, the objects hold much information regarding the social worlds and religious and symbolic views of the people who made and used them before the arrival of Europeans in the New World. This volume is the second in a series of catalogues that will treat objects in the Bliss Pre-Columbian Collection. The majority of the Olmec objects in the collection are made of jade, the most precious material for the peoples of ancient Mesoamerica from early times through the sixteenth century. Various items such as masks, statuettes, jewelry, and replicas of weapons and tools were used for ceremonial purposes and served as offerings. Karl Taube brings his expertise on the lifeways and beliefs of ancient Mesoamerican peoples to his study of the Olmec objects in teh Bliss collection. His understanding of jade covers a broad range of knowledge from chemical compositions to geological sources to craft technology to the symbolic power of the green stone. Throughout the book the author emphasizes the role of jade as a powerful symbol of water, fertility, and particularly, of the maize plant which was the fundamental source of life and sustenance for the Olmec. The shiny green of the stone was analogous to the green growth of maize. This fundamental concept was elaborated in specific religious beliefs, many of which were continued and elaborated by later Mesoamerican peoples, such as the Maya. Karl Taube employs his substantial knowledge of Pre-Columbian cultures to explore and explicate Olmec symbolism in this catalogue.
Author | : Karl A. Taube |
Publisher | : Hudson Hills Press |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780933920705 |
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Shows and describes pottery, carvings, and textiles produced by the Indians of Mexico
Author | : Julie Jones |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Indian goldwork |
ISBN | : 0821215949 |
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Author | : Lee Allen Parsons |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780936260242 |
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"For archaeologists, artists, art historians, and all lovers of art, expecially pre-Columbian art." -- Choice "... one of the better general pre-Columbian catalogues to appear in a long time." -- African Arts More than 150 examples of Olmec and Maya art are described in detail, discussed, and reproduced in magnificent full-color photographs. The collection is grouped into cultural and geographical sections to give a complete picture of the most significant civilizations of ancient Latin America.