Collecting Mesoamerican Art Before 1940

Author : Andrew D. Turner,Megan E. O'Neil
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606068731

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The untold chronicles of the looting and collecting of ancient Mesoamerican objects. This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues through the rise of systematic collecting in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ends in 1940—the start of Europe’s art market collapse at the outbreak of World War II and the coinciding genesis of the large-scale art market for pre-Hispanic antiquities in the United States. Drawing upon archival resources and international museum collections, the contributors analyze the ways shifting patterns of collecting and taste—including how pre-Hispanic objects changed from being viewed as anthropological and scientific curiosities to collectible artworks—have shaped modern academic disciplines as well as public, private, institutional, and nationalistic attitudes toward Mesoamerican art. As many nations across the world demand the return of their cultural patrimony and ancestral heritage, it is essential to examine the historical processes, events, and actors that initially removed so many objects from their countries of origin.

Author : Andrew D. Turner,Megan E. O'Neil
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606068724

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Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940 by Andrew D. Turner,Megan E. O'Neil Pdf

The untold chronicles of the looting and collecting of ancient Mesoamerican objects. This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues through the rise of systematic collecting in Europe and the Americas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and ends in 1940—the start of Europe’s art market collapse at the outbreak of World War II and the coinciding genesis of the large-scale art market for pre-Hispanic antiquities in the United States. Drawing upon archival resources and international museum collections, the contributors analyze the ways shifting patterns of collecting and taste—including how pre-Hispanic objects changed from being viewed as anthropological and scientific curiosities to collectible artworks—have shaped modern academic disciplines as well as public, private, institutional, and nationalistic attitudes toward Mesoamerican art. As many nations across the world demand the return of their cultural patrimony and ancestral heritage, it is essential to examine the historical processes, events, and actors that initially removed so many objects from their countries of origin.

Author : Gail Feigenbaum,Sandra van Ginhoven
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606068915

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Money in the Air by Gail Feigenbaum,Sandra van Ginhoven Pdf

This volume explores the crucial role of art dealers in creating a transatlantic art market in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “There was money in the air, ever so much money,” wrote Henry James in 1907, reflecting on the American appetite for art acquisitions. Indeed, collectors such as Henry Clay Frick and Andrew W. Mellon are credited with bringing noteworthy European art to the United States, with their collections forming the backbone of major American museums today. But what of the dealers, who possessed the expertise in art and recognized the potential of developing a new market model on both sides of the Atlantic? Money in the Air investigates the often-overlooked role of these dealers in creating an international art world. Contributors examine the histories of wellknown international firms like Duveen Brothers, M. Knoedler & Co., and Goupil & Cie and their relationships with American clients, as well as accounts of other remarkable dealers active in the transatlantic art market. Drawing on dealer archives, scholars reveal compelling findings, including previously unknown partnerships and systems of cooperation. This volume offers new perspectives on the development of art collections that formed the core of American art museums, such as the National Gallery of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Frick Collection.

Author : David Saunders,Megan E. O'Neil
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606069066

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Picture Worlds by David Saunders,Megan E. O'Neil Pdf

This abundantly illustrated volume is the first to explore the painted pottery of the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures side by side. Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity figure in the stories painted on the pottery produced by the ancient Greek, Moche, and Maya cultures, respectively. Picture Worlds is the first book to examine the elaborately decorated terracotta vessels of these three distinct civilizations. Although the cultures were separated by space and time, they all employed pottery as a way to tell stories, explain the world, and illustrate core myths and beliefs. Each of these painted pots is a picture world. But why did these communities reach for pottery as a primary method of visual communication? How were the vessels produced and used? In this book, experts offer introductions to the civilizations, exploring these foundational questions and examining the painted imagery. Readers will be rewarded with a better understanding of each of these ancient societies, fascinating insights into their cultural commonalities and differences, and fresh perspectives on image making and storytelling, practices that remain vibrant to this day. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa from April 10 to July 29, 2024, and at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University from September 14 to December 15, 2024.

Author : Hasso Von Winning,University of Virginia. Art Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X001466363

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The John-Platt Collection of Pre-Columbian Art by Hasso Von Winning,University of Virginia. Art Museum Pdf

Author : Merideth Paxton,Leticia Staines Cicero
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780826359070

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Constructing Power and Place in Mesoamerica by Merideth Paxton,Leticia Staines Cicero Pdf

Identities of power and place, as expressed in paintings from the periods before and after the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, are the subject of this book of case studies from Central Mexico, Oaxaca, and the Maya area. These sophisticated, skillfully rendered images occur with architecture, in manuscripts, on large pieces of cloth, and on ceramics.

Author : Margaret Young-Sánchez,Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : America
ISBN : UCSD:31822035549187

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Pre-Columbian Art in the Denver Art Museum Collection by Margaret Young-Sánchez,Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art Pdf

Author : Karl A. Taube,Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 0884022757

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Olmec Art at Dumbarton Oaks by Karl A. Taube,Dumbarton Oaks Pdf

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
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 0933920709

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The Albers Collection of Pre-Columbian Art by Karl A. Taube Pdf

Shows and describes pottery, carvings, and textiles produced by the Indians of Mexico

Author : Dumbarton Oaks
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Mexican
ISBN : 0884023451

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Ancient Mexican Art at Dumbarton Oaks by Dumbarton Oaks Pdf

This volume presents the collection of Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, and Classic Veracruz sculpture, jewelry, and painting. Four leading scholars present essays on the ancient art and archaeology of Mexico's Central Highlands, Southwestern Highlands, and Gulf Lowlands as well as extensive catalogue entries of over one hundred objects.

Author : Cara G. Tremain,Donna Yates
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813057200

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The Market for Mesoamerica by Cara G. Tremain,Donna Yates Pdf

Pre-Columbian artifacts are among the most popular items on the international antiquities market, yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor these items as public, private, and digital sales proliferate. This timely volume explores past, current, and future policies and trends concerning the sales and illicit movement of artifacts from Mesoamerica to museums and private collections. Informed by the fields of anthropology, economics, law, and criminology, contributors critically analyze practices of research and collecting in Central American countries. They assess the circulation of looted and forged artifacts on the art market and in museums and examine government and institutional policies aimed at fighting trafficking. They also ask if and how scholars can use materials removed from their context to interpret the past. The theft of cultural heritage items from their places of origin is a topic of intense contemporary discussion, and The Market for Mesoamerica updates our knowledge of this issue by presenting undocumented and illicit antiquities within a regional and global context. Through discussion of transparency, accountability, and ethical practice, this volume ultimately considers how antiquities can be protected and studied through effective policy and professional practice. A volume in the series Maya Studies, edited by Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase

Author : Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Indian art
ISBN : UOM:39015016805544

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The Art of Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica by Janet Catherine Berlo Pdf

Author : Lee Allen Parsons,John B. Carlson,Peter David Joralemon,Indianapolis Museum of Art
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Art
ISBN : 0936260246

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The Face of Ancient America by Lee Allen Parsons,John B. Carlson,Peter David Joralemon,Indianapolis Museum of Art Pdf

"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.

Author : Yale University. Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Indian art
ISBN : 0300232667

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Pre-Columbian Art of Mexico and Central America by Yale University. Art Gallery Pdf

"This handbook serves as the first comprehensive publication of the Yale University Art Gallery's distinguished collection of Precolumbian art, which features notable pieces from throughout Mesoamerica and from every period. The nearly 300 object entries are arranged by region and include historical, iconographical, and structural information. A mineralogical study of the collection includes an explanation of the methods used to make the attributions, as well as a description of the minerals themselves. Clearly organized and thoroughly researched, this publication is an essential reference for scholars, students, and collectors of Precolumbian art"--Publisher's description.

Author : Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Art
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018568963

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Selections from the Pre-Columbian Collection of Constance McCormick Fearing by Santa Barbara Museum of Art Pdf