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Collecting the "Other Americas": Ancient Americas Collections in Art Museums

Collecting the "Other Americas": Ancient Americas Collections in Art Museums

Lyall, Victoria I.
Hoobler, Ellen

Paperback

American Art - Hispanic & LatinoGeneral Art

ISBN10: 1945483172
ISBN13: 9781945483172
Publisher: Denver Art Museum
Published: Aug 19 2025
Pages: 194
Weight: 2.17
Height: 0.64 Width: 8.45 Depth: 10.86
Language: English

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.

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