Research Catalog

Title

Collecting the pre-Columbian past : a symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 6th and 7th October 1990 / Elizabeth Hill Boone, editor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Boone, Elizabeth Hill.
• Dumbarton Oaks.

Description

vi, 359 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian symposia and colloquia.

Subjects

• Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962 > Art collections > Congresses
• Indian art > Collectors and collecting > Congresses
• Indians > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting > Congresses
• Indians > Antiquities > Collection and preservation > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Congresses (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art: a memoir / Elizabeth P. Benson -- Aesthetics since Amerindian art before Columbus / George Kubler -- Three early collectors in Mesoamerica / Ian Graham -- The creation of the Museo Nacional de Antropologia of Mexico and its scientific, educational, and political purposes / Enrique Florescano -- In search of the New World classical / Curtis M. Hinsley -- Collecting and exhibiting pre-Columbiana in France and England, 1870-1930 / Elizabeth A. Williams -- Reproducing the pre-Columbian past: casts and models in exhibitions of ancient America, 1824-1935 / Diana Fane -- The necessity of pre-Columbian art in the United States: appropriations and transformations of heritage, 1933-1945 / Holly Barnet-Sanchez -- Progressivist stories and the pre-Columbian past: notes on Mexico and the United States / Shelly Errington -- Diego Rivera's collection: pre-Columbian art as a political and artistic legacy / Barbara Braun -- From huaquero to connoisseur: the early market in pre-Columbian art / Michael D. Coe -- Forging new partnerships for the study and preservation of the pre-Columbian past / Phyllis Mauch Messenger -- Collecting the pre-Columbian past: historical trends and the process of reception and use / Elizabeth Hill Boone.

ISBN

• 0884022080
• 9780884022084
• 9780884023739
• 0884023737

LCCN

92012125

OCLC

• ocm25674829
• 25674829
• SCSB-2001816

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library