Pre-Columbian Art in the Denver Art Museum Collection

Pre-Columbian Art in the Denver Art Museum Collection PDF Author: Margaret Young-Sánchez
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Pre-Columbian Art in the Denver Art Museum Collection

Pre-Columbian Art in the Denver Art Museum Collection PDF Author: Margaret Young-Sánchez
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology

Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology PDF Author: Margaret Young-Sánchez
Publisher: Denver Art Museum
ISBN: 9780914738824
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Symposia presented at the Denver Art Museum in 2002 and 2007 focused, respectively, on pre-Columbian art in the museum collection and the art and archaeology of ancient Costa Rica. Edited by Denver Art Museum curator Margaret Young-Sánchez, this lavishly illustrated volume brings together newly revised and expanded symposium papers from pre-Columbian scholars, while paying tribute to the legacy of Denver philanthropist Frederick R. Mayer--a generous supporter of archaeological and art historical research, scientific analysis, and scholarly publication. Archaeology's elder statesman Michael Coe (Yale University) provides a lively description of twentieth-century pre-Columbian archaeology and the personalities who shaped its intellectual history. Using traditional and scientific analyses of archaeological ceramics, Frederick W. Lange (LSA Associates, Inc.) and Ronald L. Bishop (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History) consider the transmission of technical and cultural knowledge in ancient Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The late Michael J. Snarskis of the Tayutic Foundation reports on his final archaeological excavation, at Loma Corral in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, where an undisturbed two-thousand-year-old cemetery contained high-status burials, local and imported ceramics, and jade ornaments. Warwick Bray (University College, London), examines pre-Columbian gold items from Panama, including their uses and meaning, as part of the "Parita Treasure" excavated in the early 1960s. Margaret Young-Sánchez (Denver Art Museum), presents the construction and iconography of early (ad 200-400) Tiwanaku-style folding pouches from the south-central Andes. And Carol Mackey (California State University, Northridge) and Joanne Pillsbury (Getty Research Institute) describe and analyze an important silver beaker decorated with detailed ritual and mythological scenes from the Lambayeque (Sicán) civilization of northern Peru (ad 800-1350).

The First Hundred Years

The First Hundred Years PDF Author: Neil Harris
Publisher: Museum
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Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Nature and Spirit

Nature and Spirit PDF Author: Margaret Young-Sánchez
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ISBN: 9780914738688
Category : Animals in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Assembled almost entirely by Frederick and Jan Mayer, The Denver Art Museum's collection of ancient Costa Rican art is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world, and it is a major component of the museum's acclaimed holdings in New World art. Nature and Spirit reveals to the modern world the richness and sophistication of indigenous thought and the incredible beauty of native art in the Americas. Generously illustrated and engagingly organized, Nature and Spirit is both an excellent introduction to Costa Rican art and an essential addition to any collection on native peoples of the Americas.

Companion to Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum

Companion to Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum PDF Author: Denver Art Museum
Publisher: Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian & Spanish Colonial Art
ISBN: 9780914738008
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Denver Art Museum

Denver Art Museum PDF Author: Denver Art Museum
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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The Arts of South America, 1492-1850

The Arts of South America, 1492-1850 PDF Author: Donna Pierce
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ISBN: 9780806199764
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum held a symposium in 2008 to examine the arts of South America during the culturally complex period of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism in the early modern era. Specialists in the arts and history of Latin America traveled from Venezuela, Spain, Portugal, and the United States to present recent research. The topics ranged from architecture, painting, and sculpture to furniture and the decorative arts. Edited by Denver Art Museum curator Donna Pierce, this volume presents revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the symposium. Thomas B. F. Cummins (Harvard University) opens the volume with a discussion of the reception and reinterpretation of American motifs by European artists in the centuries after contact. Through a detailed analysis of the architecture of Franciscan churches in Brazil, Nuno Senos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) discerns political alliances and posits a structural timeline. Susan Verdi Webster (College of William and Mary) uses new evidence from Ecuadorian archive documents to recover the names and works of native artists in colonial Quito. Sabine MacCormack (University of Notre Dame) analyzes a series of mural paintings in the church of St. Augustine in colonial Lima and traces their graphic and theological sources. Luisa Elena Alcala (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) examines the treatise of one of the earliest documented Indian artists in Peru, Francisco Tito Yupanqui, and his famous carving of the Virgin of Copacabana. Through a detailed analysis of manuscipt drawings of furniture and architecture by native artist Guaman Poma of Cuzco, Jorge Rivas Pérez (Colección Cisneros, Venezuela) assesses their accuracy and relationship to actual examples of the early colonial era. Michael Brown (Denver Art Museum) concludes the volume with an essay on Daniel Casey Stapleton and the collection of Spanish colonial art now housed at the Denver Art Museum, acquired while he was working and traveling in South America at the turn of the century. An interdisciplinary study bringing together new research on an understudied era and area, this illustrated volume will be an important resource for scholars and enthusiasts of Latin American art and history.

Denver Art Museum

Denver Art Museum PDF Author: Denver Art Museum
Publisher: Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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This guide provides a glimpse into one of the most exciting art museums in America today. With the opening of its astonishing new building by Daniel Libeskind in 2006, the Denver Art Museum is poised to become a must-see destination for art lovers from around the globe. Founded in 1893, the Museum has the largest and most comprehensive collection of world art between Kansas City and the West Coast, and its collections of American Indian, pre-Columbian and Spanish colonial art are among the finest in America. This guide illustrates nearly one hundred of the museum's greatest treasures, including Impressionist paintings by Monet, Morisot and Degas; outstanding examples of ancient art from China, India and the Americas; masterpieces of Navajo weaving, Pueblo pottery and Plains Indian beadwork, as well as Western art and important twentieth-century paintings by Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston and Andy Warhol. The museum is also known for its innovative education programmes and gallery installations, which seek to forge meaningful connections between visitors and objects. 93 colour & 2 b/w illustrations

Painting a New World

Painting a New World PDF Author: Donna Pierce
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0914738496
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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"The little-known story of viceregal Mexico is told by an international team of scholars whose work was previously available only piecemeal or not at all in English. Much of their research was undertaken especially for this volume."--BOOK JACKET.

Native American Art in the Denver Art Museum

Native American Art in the Denver Art Museum PDF Author: Denver Art Museum
Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Includes 500 illustrated examples of native North American art, including some 30 illustrations of art from the Arctic.