Parution : Collecting Mesoamerican art before 1940 : a new world of Latin American antiquities
Créateur
- Turner, Andrew David. Directeur de publication
- O’Neil, Megan Eileen. Directeur de publication
- Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.). Collectivité éditrice
Résumé
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.
Andrew D. Turner is a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute. Megan E. O’Neil is assistant professor of art history at Emory University and faculty curator at the Carlos Museum.
Informations pratiques
- Édition : Los Angeles (Calif.) : Getty Research Institute
- Date de parution : 2024
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (344 p.) : ill., cartes ; 26 cm.
- Annexes : Références bibliographiques. Index
- ISBN 978-1-6060-6872-4 (broché). – ISBN 9781606068731 (erroné)
- EAN 9781606068724
- Sujets :
- Art précolombien
- Muséologie
- Collectionneurs et collections
Localisation
- PARIS-BSU-Michelet
- PARIS-Ecole du Louvre
- PARIS-INHA
- PARIS-BnF
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Olivier Jacquot (17 avril 2025). Parution : Collecting Mesoamerican art before 1940 : a new world of Latin American antiquities. Amoxcalli. Consulté le 11 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13rkm









