Collecting the "Other Americas"

Ancient Americas Collections in Art Museums

Victoria I. Lyall, Ellen Hoobler (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

194 Seiten

2025
Denver Art Museum (Verlag)
978-1-945483-17-2 (ISBN)

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The term “Pre-Columbian art” once described the material culture produced in the Americas, mostly south of the US-Mexico border, prior to the arrival of Europeans. Museums across the United States now refer to these departments as “the Americas” or “the ancient Americas.” A few individuals and museums began collecting in this area already in the late nineteenth century, but many others did not embark on it until well into the twentieth. A range of figures brought these collections into being: a handful of dedicated curators, pioneering directors, and passionate collectors and patrons engaged dealers, archaeologists, scholars, and governments to amass artworks and present them to students and the public alike. During this time, many art museums insisted on displaying these materials not as ethnographic or anthropological objects but as finely crafted works of aesthetic value—as art. During the latter half of the twentieth century, more concern arose over acquisition methods and standards as well as the ethics of collecting objects of cultural heritage and import.

Stewards of these collections in American art museums have begun to confront the changing meanings and import of what Nelson Rockefeller once described as the “Other Americas.” This Mayer Center Symposium volume captures the history of collecting and display of ancient American works in art museums, a history surprisingly poorly documented until now, and their significance for communities today.

With additional contributions by:
Susan E. Bergh, former Curator of Pre-Columbian and Native North American Art, Cleveland Museum of Art
Kristopher Driggers, Associate Curator of Latin American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art
Rex Koontz, Moores Professor of Art History, University of Houston, and Consulting Curator of the Art of the Indigenous Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Mary E. Miller, Director of the Getty Research Institute
Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Elizabeth Irene Pope, Senior Research Associate with the Arts of the Americas and Textiles departments at the Art Institute of Chicago
Matthew H. Robb, Mesoamerican specialist, Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Nancy B. Rosoff, Andrew W. Mellon Curator and Chair of the Arts of the Americas, Brooklyn Museum

Victoria I. Lyall is Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas at Denver Art Museum.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.08.2025
Zusatzinfo	145 Color and B&W Illus.
Verlagsort	Denver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	229 x 279 mm
Gewicht	984 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-945483-17-2 / 1945483172
ISBN-13	978-1-945483-17-2 / 9781945483172
Zustand	Neuware