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Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia)
Collecting the PreColumbian Past - Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Symposia and Colloquia Author:Elizabeth Hill Boone (Editor) Thirteen essays from a 1990 Dumbarton Oaks symposium locate the collecting process within its broader cultural setting in order to explain how and why such collections of Pre-Columbian objects were formed, and consider how such collections have served as documents of culture (within the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology) and as objects... more » of fine art or aesthetic statements (within the art and art historical worlds). Authors include Elizabeth Benson, George Kubler, Ian Graham, Michael D. Coe, and others. « less