Author: Stefanie Gänger
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019151148X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Relics of the Past tells the story of antiquities collecting, antiquarianism, and archaeology in Peru and Chile in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. While the role of foreign travellers and scholars dedicated to the study of South America's pre-Columbian past is well documented, historians have largely overlooked the knowledge gathered and the collections formed among collectors of antiquities, antiquaries, and archaeologists born or living in South America during this period. The landed gentry, the clergy, and an urban bourgeoisie of doctors, engineers, and military officials put antiquities on display in their private mansions or bestowed them upon the public museums that were being formed by municipalities and governments in Santiago de Chile, Cuzco, or Lima. Men, and some few women, gathered antiquities on their journeys 'inland' and during sociable weekend excursions, but also on quotidian commercial voyages or in military campaigns. They bartered antiquities with their fellow collectors or haggled about their price on the antiquities market. In their hours of leisure, they marvelled at them, wrote about them, and disputed over their meaning, age, and interest in learned societies, informal gatherings, and at meetings in universities and public museums. This volume unveils a hitherto largely unknown world of antiquarian and archaeological collecting and learning in Peru and Chile.
Relics of the Past
Author: Stefanie Gänger
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019151148X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Relics of the Past tells the story of antiquities collecting, antiquarianism, and archaeology in Peru and Chile in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. While the role of foreign travellers and scholars dedicated to the study of South America's pre-Columbian past is well documented, historians have largely overlooked the knowledge gathered and the collections formed among collectors of antiquities, antiquaries, and archaeologists born or living in South America during this period. The landed gentry, the clergy, and an urban bourgeoisie of doctors, engineers, and military officials put antiquities on display in their private mansions or bestowed them upon the public museums that were being formed by municipalities and governments in Santiago de Chile, Cuzco, or Lima. Men, and some few women, gathered antiquities on their journeys 'inland' and during sociable weekend excursions, but also on quotidian commercial voyages or in military campaigns. They bartered antiquities with their fellow collectors or haggled about their price on the antiquities market. In their hours of leisure, they marvelled at them, wrote about them, and disputed over their meaning, age, and interest in learned societies, informal gatherings, and at meetings in universities and public museums. This volume unveils a hitherto largely unknown world of antiquarian and archaeological collecting and learning in Peru and Chile.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019151148X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Relics of the Past tells the story of antiquities collecting, antiquarianism, and archaeology in Peru and Chile in the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century. While the role of foreign travellers and scholars dedicated to the study of South America's pre-Columbian past is well documented, historians have largely overlooked the knowledge gathered and the collections formed among collectors of antiquities, antiquaries, and archaeologists born or living in South America during this period. The landed gentry, the clergy, and an urban bourgeoisie of doctors, engineers, and military officials put antiquities on display in their private mansions or bestowed them upon the public museums that were being formed by municipalities and governments in Santiago de Chile, Cuzco, or Lima. Men, and some few women, gathered antiquities on their journeys 'inland' and during sociable weekend excursions, but also on quotidian commercial voyages or in military campaigns. They bartered antiquities with their fellow collectors or haggled about their price on the antiquities market. In their hours of leisure, they marvelled at them, wrote about them, and disputed over their meaning, age, and interest in learned societies, informal gatherings, and at meetings in universities and public museums. This volume unveils a hitherto largely unknown world of antiquarian and archaeological collecting and learning in Peru and Chile.
Catalogue: Authors
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940
Author: Andrew D. Turner
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606068725
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606068725
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
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.
Romancing the Maya
Author: R. Tripp Evans
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292789262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
During Mexico's first century of independence, European and American explorers rediscovered its pre-Hispanic past. Finding the jungle-covered ruins of lost cities and artifacts inscribed with unintelligible hieroglyphs—and having no idea of the age, authorship, or purpose of these antiquities—amateur archaeologists, artists, photographers, and religious writers set about claiming Mexico's pre-Hispanic patrimony as a rightful part of the United States' cultural heritage. In this insightful work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own. He focuses in particular on five well-known figures—American writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the French émigré photographers Désiré Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon. Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destiny-inspired desire to create a national museum of American antiquities in New York City, the attempt to identify the ancient Maya as part of the Lost Tribes of Israel (and so substantiate the Book of Mormon), and the hope of proving that ancient Mesoamerica was the cradle of North American and even Northern European civilization. Fascinating stories in themselves, these accounts of the first explorers also add an important new chapter to the early history of Mesoamerican archaeology.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292789262
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
During Mexico's first century of independence, European and American explorers rediscovered its pre-Hispanic past. Finding the jungle-covered ruins of lost cities and artifacts inscribed with unintelligible hieroglyphs—and having no idea of the age, authorship, or purpose of these antiquities—amateur archaeologists, artists, photographers, and religious writers set about claiming Mexico's pre-Hispanic patrimony as a rightful part of the United States' cultural heritage. In this insightful work, Tripp Evans explores why nineteenth-century Americans felt entitled to appropriate Mexico's cultural heritage as the United States' own. He focuses in particular on five well-known figures—American writer and amateur archaeologist John Lloyd Stephens, British architect Frederick Catherwood, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the French émigré photographers Désiré Charnay and Augustus Le Plongeon. Setting these figures in historical and cultural context, Evans uncovers their varying motives, including the Manifest Destiny-inspired desire to create a national museum of American antiquities in New York City, the attempt to identify the ancient Maya as part of the Lost Tribes of Israel (and so substantiate the Book of Mormon), and the hope of proving that ancient Mesoamerica was the cradle of North American and even Northern European civilization. Fascinating stories in themselves, these accounts of the first explorers also add an important new chapter to the early history of Mesoamerican archaeology.
New Art (Cloth)
Author: A. Papadakēs
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"The accelerated history of an art world preoccupied with whatever is 'newer than the new', or as Germano Celant writes, 'more present than the present', demands a consolidation of contemporary art and related theory existing today. New Art seeks to come to terms with the changing and continually developing trends in the art world at the beginning of the 1990s. Brought together are artists, critics and curators from Europe and the USA who have played seminal roles in inventing and discerning the most significant definitions circulating the international art scene over the last decade or so."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"The accelerated history of an art world preoccupied with whatever is 'newer than the new', or as Germano Celant writes, 'more present than the present', demands a consolidation of contemporary art and related theory existing today. New Art seeks to come to terms with the changing and continually developing trends in the art world at the beginning of the 1990s. Brought together are artists, critics and curators from Europe and the USA who have played seminal roles in inventing and discerning the most significant definitions circulating the international art scene over the last decade or so."--BOOK JACKET.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University: Lae to Oll
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Prehistoric Structures of Central America
Author: Martin Ingham Townsend
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Pre-columbian Man Finds Central America
Author: Doris Stone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780876357927
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780876357927
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Catalogue: Subjects
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations
Author: Zelia Nuttall
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Calendar
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description