Pre-Columbian Art & Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Frederick R. Mayer
Papers from the 2002 & 2007 Mayer Center Symposia at the Denver Art Museum
Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez
Denver Art Museum, March 2013
With essays by
Michael Coe (Yale University), Frederick Lange (LSA Associates) and Ron Bishop (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History), Michael Snarskis (Tayutic Foundation, Costa Rica), Warwick Bray (University College, London), (Denver Art Museum), Margaret Young-Sánchez (Denver Art Museum), Carol Mackey (California State University, Northridge) and Joanne Pillsbury (Getty Research Institute).
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of Oklahoma Press (March 2012) and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488).
At the Crossroads: The Arts of Spanish America & Early Global Trade, 1492-1850
Papers from the 2010 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum
Edited by Donna Pierce
Denver Art Museum, December 2012
With essays by
Claire Farago & James Cordova (University of Colorado, Boulder), Dana Leibsohn (Smith College), Jaime Mariazza F. (Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Peru), Maria Bonta de la Pezuela (Sotheby's, New York), Donna Pierce (Denver Art Museum), Sara Ryu (Yale University), William Sargent (Peabody Essex Museum), Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt (Independent Scholar).
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of Oklahoma Press (December 2012) and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488).
Companion to Spanish Colonial Art at the Denver Art Museum
By Donna Pierce
Denver Art Museum, December 2011
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).
Marajó: Ancient Ceramics from the Mouth of the Amazon
By Margaret Young-Sánchez & Denise P. Schaan
Denver Art Museum, June 2011
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.
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of Oklahoma Press (Summer 2011) and at the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488). $25
Nature and Spirit: Ancient Costa Rican Treasures in the Mayer Collection at the Denver Art Museum
Papers from the 2008 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum
Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez
Denver Art Museum, January 2011
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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of Oklahoma Press (January 2011) and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488).
The Arts of South America, 1492-1850
Papers from the 2008 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum
Edited by Donna Pierce
Denver Art Museum, November 2010
With essays by
Luisa Elena Alcala (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain),
Michael Brown (Denver Art Museum),
Thomas B.F. Cummins (Harvard University),
Sabine MacCormack (University of Notre Dame),
Jorge Rivas Perez (Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela),
Nuno Senos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal),
Susan Verdi Webster (College of William & Mary).
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of Oklahoma Press (November 2010) and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488).
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).
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).
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Andean Textile Traditions: Papers from the 2001 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum
Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez and Fronia W. Simpson
Denver Art Museum, 2006
With essays by Ran Boytner (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA), Andrea M. Heckman (University of New Mexico), Marianne Hogue (Virginia Commonwealth University), Joanne Pillsbury (Dumbarton Oaks), Jane Rehl (Savannah College of Art and Design)
and Margaret Young-Sánchez (Denver Art Museum).
Distributed by the University
of Texas Press (Spring 2006)
and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488).
Exploring
New World Imagery: Spanish Colonial Papers
from the 2002 Mayer Center Symposium
Edited by Donna Pierce
Denver Art Museum, 2005
With essays by Carolyn Dean (UC, Santa Barbara), Samuel Y. Edgerton (Williams
College), Juana Gutierrez Haces (Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico,
Mexico City), Alexandra Kennedy-Troya (Universidad de Cuenca, Ecuador),
and Jeanette Favrot Peterson (UC, Santa Barbara).
Distributed by University
of Texas Press (Fall 2005)
and the Denver Art Museum Gift Shop (720.865.4488).
Tiwanaku:
Ancestors of the Inca
Edited and with an introduction Margaret Young-Sánchez
Denver Art Museum, 2004
A companion publication to an exhibition of the
same name at the Denver Art Museum, October 2004 - January 2005.
With essays by Sergio J. Chavez (Central Michigan University), Nicole
C. Couture (McGill University, Montreal), Paul S. Goldstein (UC, San Diego),
and Alan L. Kolata (University of Chicago), Mario A. Rivera (University
of Chicago and Universidad Bolivariana, Chile).
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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).
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.
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