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Circulación: Movement of Ideas, Art, and People in Spanish America
In this beautifully illustrated volume, an international group of scholars present recent research on the movement of goods, art, and artists--and the circulation of ideas and ideologies--that shaped culture in Spanish America from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the first half of the nineteenth century. Their essays, now revised and expanded, were originally presented in 2016 at the annual symposium of the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum, organized by Jorge Rivas Pérez. | ||
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New England / New Spain: Portraiture in the Colonial Americas, 1492-1850
In 2014 the Denver Art Museum held a symposium hosted by the Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art and co-organized by Donna Pierce, former Frederick and Jan Mayer of Spanish Colonial Art, and Emily Ballew Neff, Director of the Brooks Museum, Memphis. They assembled an international group of scholars to present recent research on portraiture in the Spanish colony of New Spain (Mexico) and the British colonies of North America. This volume presents revised and expanded versions of papers presented at the symposium. | ||
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Companion to Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry from Colonial Latin America at the Denver Art Museum
During the Spanish Colonial period in Latin America (1521–1850), precious gold and silver were crafted into elegant jewelry, then embellished with emeralds from Colombia, coral from Mexico, and pearls from Venezuela. To demonstrate their wealth and status, people were painted wearing their finest dress and elaborate jewelry. Selecting from its permanent collection, the Denver Art Museum installed the long-running exhibition Glitterati: Portraits and Jewelry in Colonial Latin America in its Spanish Colonial galleries (December 2014-November 2016). This lavishly illustrated publication serves as a companion to the Glitterati exhibition and, on a larger scale, to the collection of Spanish Colonial jewelry and portraiture at the museum. |
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Festivals & Daily Life in the Arts of Colonial Latin America, 1492-1850 With essays by |
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Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Frederick R. Mayer With essays by |
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At the Crossroads: The Arts of Spanish America & Early Global Trade, 1492-1850 With essays by |
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Companion to Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum A lavishly illustrated primer to the Denver Art Museum's Spanish Colonial Art collection. The Denver Art Museum counts among its greatest resources a world-renowned Spanish Colonial collection rich in art from all over Latin America. Initiated in 1936, the Spanish Colonial collection has grown dramatically over the years to include more than 3,000 objects. It is the best collection of its type in the United States, and in many areas, it is the most comprehensive collection outside the country of origin. The museum's Spanish Colonial galleries include significant paintings, sculpture, furniture, silver, and decorative arts from the period. This lavishly illustrated volume--the first ever devoted to the museum's Spanish Colonial collection as a whole--serves as a primer to this stellar art collection, framing it within the historical context of the early modern world and the first era of global trade. Organized by theme rather than chronology, it features photographs of more than 100 objects from all areas of Spanish America and the southwestern United States. Subjects discussed include, but are not limited to, the continuity of native traditions, church and mission art, hybrid art forms, and the art of everyday life. Distributed by the University of Oklahoma Press (Late Fall 2011) for $19.95 and at the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488). |
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Marajó: Ancient Ceramics from the Mouth of the Amazon A companion catalog to an exhibition of the same name on view at the DAM 6/11 - 9/18/2011. Long virtually unknown to the North American and European audiences, the Amazon Basin is now recognized as a cradle of cultural and technological innovation in the ancient Americas. The hemisphere’s earliest known ceramics (about 5000 B.C.) were produced there, and archaeology is revealing the remains of large settlements, ancient mound structures, and extensive water management systems, all built over the course of centuries. Marajó Island, located at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil, was home to one of the region’s most populous and sophisticated ancient societies (A.D. 300-1300). Beautifully decorated ceramics deposited as offerings in ancient Marajó cemeteries attest to the technical skill and artistry of Amazonian potters, and the complexity and sophistication of their cosmology. Lavishly illustrated in this volume is the full range of forms, drawn from the collections of the Denver Art Museum, the Barbier-Mueller Museums of Geneva and Barcelona, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the American Museum of Natural History, and private collections. Distributed by the University
of Oklahoma Press (Summer 2011) and at the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488). $25 |
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Nature and Spirit: Ancient Costa Rican Treasures in the Mayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum 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. Essays by art historians Margaret Young-Sánchez (Denver Art Museum) and Heather Orr (Western State College, Colorado), archaeologists Michael Snarskis (Costa Rica) and John Hoopes (University of Kansas), and anthropologist and linguist David Mora Marín (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) illuminate ancient Costa Rican artistic styles, as well as cultural and religious beliefs, and place the works in archaeological context.
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The Arts of South America, 1492-1850 With essays by |
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Asia & Spanish America: Trans-Pacific Artistic and Cultural Exchange, 1500-1850 Papers from the 2006 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum Edited by Donna Pierce & Ronald Otsuka Denver Art Museum, September 2009 With essays by Clara Bargellini (Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City), Roxanna M. Brown (Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum, Bangkok University), Gustavo Curiel (Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City), Abby Sue Fisher (Keweenaw National Historic Park, Michigan), George Kuwayama (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Meiko Nagashima (Kyoto National Museum), Sonia Ocana Ruiz (Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City), Jorge Rivas Perez (Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas), Etsuko Miyata Rodriguez (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela), Sofia Sanabrais (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Marjorie Trusted (Victoria & Albert Museum, London). Distributed by the University of Oklahoma Press (September 2009) and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488). |
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Tiwanaku: Papers from the 2005 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez Denver Art Museum, March 2009 With essays by Leonardo Benitez (University of Pennsylvania), Susan E. Bergh (Cleveland Museum of Art), Christiane Clados (Free University of Berlin), William J. Conklin (Field Museum of Chicago and The Textile Museum, Washington D.C.), Georgia de Havenon (Brooklyn Museum), John Hoopes (University of Kansas), William H. Isbell (State University of New York, Binghamton) and Patricia J. Knobloch (Institute of Andean Studies), Krzysztof Makowski Hanula (Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima), Alexei Vranich (University of Pennsylvania), Patrick Ryan Williams (Field Museum of Chicago), R.T. Zuidema (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne). Distributed by the University of Oklahoma Press (March 2009) and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488). |
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Andean Textile Traditions: Papers from the 2001 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum |
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Exploring
New World Imagery: Spanish Colonial Papers
from the 2002 Mayer Center Symposium |
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Tiwanaku:
Ancestors of the Inca
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Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521 - 1821 Edited by Donna Pierce, Rogelio Ruiz Gomar and Clara Bargellini Denver Art Museum, 2004 A companion publication to an exhibition of the same name at the Denver Art Museum, April - August 2004, and the Meadows Museum of Art at Southern Methodist University, September - October 2004. Distributed by the University of Texas Press and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488). |
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Pre-Columbian Art in the Denver Art Museum Collection Margaret Young-Sánchez Denver Art Museum, 2003 A compact survey of the arts of Pre-Columbian America from Mexico to Peru, illustrated with examples from the Denver Art Museum collection. Distributed by amazon.com and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488). |
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