Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks
Title | Pre-Columbian Art from Central America and Colombia at Dumbarton Oaks PDF eBook |
Author | Colin McEwan |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Pages | 758 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Indian art |
ISBN | 9780884024699 |
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.
Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador
Title | Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador PDF eBook |
Author | Colin McEwan |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Central America |
ISBN | 9780884024705 |
Pre-Columbian Central America, Colombia, and Ecuador: Toward an Integrated Approach presents current research on the prehispanic indigenous peoples in the lands between Mesoamerica and the Andes. Specialists have contributed to this illustrated book on topics ranging from historical and theoretical perspectives to reports on recent excavations.
Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
Title | Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art PDF eBook |
Author | Dumbarton Oaks |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia
Title | Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Quilter |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780884022947 |
The lands between Mesoamerica and the Central Andes are famed for the rich diversity of ancient cultures that inhabited them. Throughout this vast region, from about AD 700 until the sixteenth-century Spanish invasion, a rich and varied tradition of goldworking was practiced. The amount of gold produced and worn by native inhabitants was so great that Columbus dubbed the last New World shores he sailed as Costa Rica—the "Rich Coast." Despite the long-recognized importance of the region in its contribution to Pre-Columbian culture, very few books are readily available, especially in English, on these lands of gold. Gold and Power in Ancient Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia now fills that gap with eleven articles by leading scholars in the field. Issues of culture change, the nature of chiefdom societies, long-distance trade and transport, ideologies of value, and the technologies of goldworking are covered in these essays as are the role of metals as expressions and materializations of spiritual, political, and economic power. These topics are accompanied by new information on the role of stone statuary and lapidary work, craft and trade specialization, and many more topics, including a reevaluation of the concept of the "Intermediate Area." Collectively, the volume provides a new perspective on the prehistory of these lands and includes articles by Latin American scholars whose writings have rarely been published in English.
Pre-Columbian Art
Title | Pre-Columbian Art PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Kirkland Lothrop |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1957 |
Genre | Indian art |
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Falsifications and Misreconstructions of Pre-Columbian Art
Title | Falsifications and Misreconstructions of Pre-Columbian Art PDF eBook |
Author | Dumbarton Oaks |
Publisher | Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
Title | Handbook of the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 78 |
Release | 1963 |
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