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Arts of the ancient Americas

Title

Arts of the ancient Americas / Dorie Reents-Budet, Dennis Carr.

Author

Reents-Budet, Dorie

Publication

Boston, Massachusetts : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2019]
New York, New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK D.A.P.
London : Distributed outside the United States and Canada by Thames & Hudson, Ltd.
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Description

188 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 23 cm.

Summary

The territory stretching from northern Mexico to Chile is one of six world regions where ancient civilizations arose joining Egypt, the Near East and Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, North China and Southeast Asia. The intellectual and artistic accomplishments of the ancient American peoples rival those of the others, including fully developed writing systems, the tallest structures in the western hemisphere until the 20th century, and textiles and painted ceramics of unsurpassed complexity and refinement.0The collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is particularly strong in Mayan ceramics, early Andean textiles and gold objects from Panama and Colombia, and throughout its history the museum has been at the forefront in presenting pre-Columbian artifacts as part of art history rather than in the context of natural history or archaeology. The artworks featured in this volume exemplify the aesthetics and supreme craftsmanship of the peoples of the ancient Americas in pictorial pottery, sumptuous gold body adornments and luxury textiles.

Series Statement

MFA highlights

Uniform Title

MFA highlights.

Subject

Genre/Form

Catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-183) and index.

Contents

Director's foreword / Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- Acknowledgments / Dorie Reents-Budet, Consulting Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- The earliest American arts / Dorie Reents-Budet -- Spirit and cosmos -- Portraiture -- Regalia -- Fabrics of power -- Feasting -- Performance -- Timeline, maps, further reading, figure illustrations, index.

Call Number

JQE 19-621

ISBN

9780878467419
0878467416

LCCN

2019930803
9780878467419

OCLC

1054001302

Author

Reents-Budet, Dorie, author.

Title

Arts of the ancient Americas / Dorie Reents-Budet, Dennis Carr.

Publisher

Boston, Massachusetts : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2019]

Distributor

New York, New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK D.A.P.

London : Distributed outside the United States and Canada by Thames & Hudson, Ltd.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

MFA highlights

MFA highlights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-183) and index.

Added Author

Ward, Gerald W. R., editor.

Snodgrass, Jennifer (Editor), editor.

Carr, Dennis, contributor.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Other Standard Identifier

9780878467419 50000

Research Call Number

JQE 19-621

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